Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School - the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
Primary · Lymington · SO41 8GY
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 15 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
104 pupils · 90% of 115 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 29.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 6.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 6.8% of pupils
- Website
- www.olsjschool.co.uk
- URN
- 116378
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place14 places offered · 14 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)
15 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)
62% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 38% 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
- 15 November 2022: Outstanding
- 18 May 2021: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools
- 17 May 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.