St Monica's RC Primary School

St Monica's RC Primary School continues to demonstrate effective performance, successfully maintaining the standards set during its previous inspection. The school is characterized by a positive and friendly atmosphere where pupils feel safe and happy. Leaders are committed to fostering students’ independence and interests, ensuring that all students, including those with special educational needs, have access to quality education. The school emphasizes strong academic foundations and developing fluency in reading and mathematics among its students. While the school has notable strengths, including high standards of behavior and a rich extracurricular program, it faces some challenges. Occasionally, pupils struggle to apply their mathematical skills effectively, and there are instances where a small number of pupils do not meet behavior expectations during breaks. These issues are being addressed by school leaders, who have shown a proactive approach to improvement and responsiveness to the needs of their students.

Strengths

• Pupils are friendly, safe, and happy.
• Leaders are ambitious and have high expectations for all pupils.
• The school provides many opportunities for pupils to engage with the community.
• Teachers are well-trained and provide a consistent learning experience.
• Pupils demonstrate high levels of oracy and confidence in speaking.
• The curriculum is ambitious and well-structured across various subjects.
• The school offers a rich personal development program and extracurricular activities.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils struggle to apply mathematical procedures they have learned.
• A small number of pupils do not consistently meet the school's behavior expectations during playtimes.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at St Monica's RC Primary School attended 96.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.6% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.9% of pupils at St Monica's RC Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 St Monica's RC Primary School had 22.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.7% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 6.8% of pupils at St Monica's RC Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 St Monica's RC Primary School received £7,123 and spent £7,375 for each of its 433 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £228,000 (-£526 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is St Monica's RC Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Monica's RC Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was St Monica's RC Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Monica's RC Primary School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does St Monica's RC Primary School have?

St Monica's RC Primary School has 441 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Monica's RC Primary School cover?

St Monica's RC Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are St Monica's RC Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 73% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Monica's RC Primary School?

St Monica's RC Primary School is at Cannon Road, Southgate, London, N14 7HE.