St Begh's Catholic Junior School
Primary · Whitehaven · CA28 7TE
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 15 September 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
240 pupils · 80% of 300 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 35.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 6.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 3.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.9% of pupils
- Website
- http://www.stbeghs.co.uk
- URN
- 112354
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
47 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)
97% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% 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
- 14 September 2023: School remains Good
- 17 July 2018: Good
- 28 June 2017: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 14 June 2016: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.