St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Primary · London · NW4 4TY
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 13 January 2026 · report published 1 March 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
413 pupils · 75% of 548 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 29.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 56.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 5% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.stjps.org
- URN
- 101337
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.85 first-choice applications per place40 places offered · 34 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
The council does not publish a cutoff distance for this school.
Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
78 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
81% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school · 14% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 13 January 2026: Expected standard
- 27 April 2022: S8 No Formal Designation Visit
- 6 October 2021: Good
- 7 December 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.