St Stephen's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Warrington · WA2 9HS
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 24 October 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
199 pupils · 95% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 43.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 27.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 28.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.4% of pupils
- Website
- https://ststephenscps.com/
- URN
- 111310
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.88 first-choice applications per place25 places offered · 22 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.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
30 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)
89% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 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
- 24 October 2023: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Sandy Lane Nursery and Forest School
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School
- Meadowside Community Primary and Nursery School
- St Margaret's Church of England Primary School
- Beamont Collegiate Academy
- Warrington St Ann's Church of England Primary Academy
- Dallam Community Primary School
- Brook Acre Community Primary School