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St John's Catholic Primary School

Primary · Bath · BA2 3NR

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Good

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.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 13 September 2023

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At a glance

325 pupils · 103% of 315 capacity (over capacity) (January 2026 census)

School type
Academy converter
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Free school meals
10.2% of pupils (January 2026)
Website
www.stjohnscatholicprimary.org.uk
URN
151806

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 34 families named it first for 40 Reception places, 0.85 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 0.503 miles; distance decided places in 2 of the 2 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2024 to 2025. Ofsted last graded it Good on 13 September 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.1% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.85 first-choice applications per place

40 places offered · 34 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. Places by distance, last offered at 0.503 miles for 2025 entry.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry) lived within 0.503 miles

measured in a straight line.

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 66% (Bath and North East Somerset 80%, England 60%) · Any other White background 12% (Bath and North East Somerset 5%, England 7%) · Asian Indian 6% (Bath and North East Somerset 1%, England 4%) · Black African 4% (Bath and North East Somerset 1%, England 5%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (Bath and North East Somerset 2%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Bath and North East Somerset 2%, England 2%) · Not recorded 2% (Bath and North East Somerset 2%, England 1%) · Any other Asian background 2% (Bath and North East Somerset 1%, England 2%) · Any other Black background 1% (Bath and North East Somerset 0%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Bath and North East Somerset 1%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (Bath and North East Somerset 2%, England 2%) · other groups together 1%

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.1%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
7.1%
England 17.5%

Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
22.9
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary

Teacher pay (November 2025)

Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £42,311; 16.7% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%

Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher36.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications8.7%18.1%
In managerial or professional work26.7%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways13.7%18.1%
Residents in very good health53.5%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier50.2%62.3%
Social housing17.5%17.1%
Privately rented32.4%20.5%
Detached houses3.7%22.9%
Flats23.8%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms31.5%21.1%
Households with no car or van30.3%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01014436 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£412,000549 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£330,000–£560,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (41)£860,000
Semi-detached (104)£450,000
Terraced (295)£417,000
Flat (109)£278,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (0.81 km, 2025 entry): 352 sales, median £413,000. 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
0an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
4an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
9an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
3an urban school averages 6.1

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

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