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St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School

Primary · Sutton · SM3 9DL

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Outstanding

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: OutstandingBehaviour & attitudes: OutstandingPersonal development: OutstandingLeadership & management: OutstandingSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 29 November 2023

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At a glance

465 pupils · 112% of 417 capacity (over capacity)

School type
Academy converter
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Free school meals
4.4% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.stcecilias.school
URN
151891

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.17 first-choice applications per place

60 places offered · 70 first-choice applications · oversubscribed

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.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.

Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.4%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
5%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher40.5%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications14.1%18.1%
In managerial or professional work43.4%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways11%18.1%
Residents in very good health55.1%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier87.3%62.3%
Social housing1.2%17.1%
Privately rented11.6%20.5%
Detached houses15.7%22.9%
Flats8.4%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms25%21.1%
Households with no car or van14.6%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01004196 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,258 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£525,000600 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£424,500–£600,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (12)£628,500
Semi-detached (185)£605,000
Terraced (315)£515,000
Flat (88)£297,500

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

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. 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
1an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
5an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
51an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
5an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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