St Bernard's Roman Catholic Primary & Nursery School
Primary · Ellesmere Port · CH65 5EW
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 25 February 2020
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209 pupils · 87% of 240 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 37.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 17.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 14.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.9% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.stbernardsrc.co.uk/
- URN
- 140896
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.77 first-choice applications per place22 places offered · 17 first-choice applications · usually has places
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)
23 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)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
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, academy 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
- 11 March 2025: Standards maintained
- 25 February 2020: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Wolverham Primary and Nursery School
- The Oaks Community Primary School
- Cambridge Road Community Primary and Nursery School
- Whitby Heath Primary School
- Ellesmere Port Christ Church CofE Primary School
- Ellesmere Port Church of England College
- William Stockton Community Primary School
- Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School