St John's CofE Primary Academy
Primary · Newcastle · ST5 5AF
Data updated
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 6 June 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
155 pupils · 66% of 234 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 6.6% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 16.1% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 16.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 0% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- https://stjohnskeele.org/
- URN
- 151255
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 12 families named it first for 12 Reception places, 1.00 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2020 entry went to 2.963 miles; distance decided places in 4 of the 7 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2011 to 2025. Ofsted last graded it Requires improvement on 6 June 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.4% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place12 places offered · 12 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2025 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Every applicant was offered a place for 2025 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2020 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 2.963 miles
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Newcastle school admissions · Staffordshire school admissions
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 66% (Staffordshire 80%, England 60%) · Mixed White and Asian 6% (Staffordshire 1%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 5% (Staffordshire 3%, England 5%) · Any other Asian background 4% (Staffordshire 1%, England 2%) · Any other White background 4% (Staffordshire 4%, England 7%) · Black African 4% (Staffordshire 2%, England 5%) · Asian Bangladeshi 3% (Staffordshire 0%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 3% (Staffordshire 2%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 2% (Staffordshire 2%, England 4%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Staffordshire 1%, England 3%) · Any other Mixed background 1% (Staffordshire 2%, England 3%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
3.11 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Staffordshire: 1.97 suspensions and 0.07 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
44% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 56% moved to another state school
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
77.8% of teachers took sickness absence, 11.6 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £44,851; 18.2% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
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The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 25.8% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 3.8% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 16% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 10% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 47.1% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 75.6% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 7.4% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 17% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 45.5% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 4% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 37.3% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 12.4% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01029576 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £332,50021 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £267,000–£525,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are dearer than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Reception cutoff distance (4.77 km, 2020 entry): 1,820 sales, median £195,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0a rural school averages 0.3
- Collisions at school-run times
- 0a rural school averages 0.7
- All reported collisions
- 0a rural school averages 3.4
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 0a rural school averages 0.9
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted