St Philip's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Arundel · BN18 9BA
Data updated
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 8 December 2021
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
209 pupils · 100% of 210 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 3.8% of pupils (January 2026)
- URN
- 151780
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 30 families named it first for 30 Reception places, 1.00 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 749.3 m (≈0.47 mi); distance decided places in 2 of the 6 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2021 to 2026. An ungraded Ofsted inspection on 8 December 2021 confirmed its earlier grade, Good. 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 place30 places offered · 30 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. The distance published for 2026 entry is not shown here.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
The distance published for 2026 entry is not shown here.
It is far outside anything this school's other years or comparable schools show, so it would not tell you how close you need to live.
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 749.3 m (≈0.47 mi)
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: West Sussex school admissions
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 87% (West Sussex 73%, England 60%) · Any other White background 5% (West Sussex 6%, England 7%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (West Sussex 3%, England 3%) · Not recorded 2% (West Sussex 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (West Sussex 1%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 1% (West Sussex 3%, England 4%) · other groups together 0%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 8/10less deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 5/10around the middle for England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 40.7% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 13.8% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 41.9% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 11.9% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 46.4% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 66.1% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 5.4% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 28.5% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 32.6% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 26.5% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 23.4% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 15.3% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01031392 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £385,000145 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £285,000–£595,000the 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 (0.75 km, 2025 entry): 124 sales, median £395,000. 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
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0a rural school averages 0.3
- Collisions at school-run times
- 6a rural school averages 0.7
- All reported collisions
- 19a rural school averages 3.4
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 3a 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