St Mary's RC Infants School
Primary · Carshalton · SM5 2PT
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 26 September 2023
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284 pupils · 88% of 322 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 1.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 41.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.1% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.smcsc.org.uk
- URN
- 102995
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.94 first-choice applications per place67 places offered · 63 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 school offered a place to every applicant in recent years. Distance was not needed to decide places.
Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
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 · 7% moved to another state school · 11% 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
- 26 September 2023: Good
- 16 January 2018: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Mary's RC Junior School
- St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls
- Harris Junior Academy Carshalton
- Carshalton High School for Girls
- Victor Seymour Infants' School
- All Saints Carshalton Church of England Primary School
- Rushy Meadow Primary Academy
- Muschamp Primary School and Language Opportunity Base