St Matthew's Church of England Aided Primary School and Nursery Centre
Primary · Telford · TF2 7PZ
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Some aspects not as strong”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 11 June 2025
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
291 pupils · 86% of 340 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 41.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 18% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 0.3% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.stmatthewscofe.com
- URN
- 123557
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.90 first-choice applications per place31 places offered · 28 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)
41 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)
86% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 14% moved to another state school
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
- 10 June 2025: Some aspects not as strong
- 4 February 2020: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 6 July 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Donnington Wood CofE Voluntary Controlled Junior School
- Donnington Wood Infant School and Nursery Centre
- Muxton Primary School
- Wrockwardine Wood Infant School and Nursery
- New Road Academy
- Wrockwardine Wood Church of England Junior School
- St Luke's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy.
- Teagues Bridge Primary School