St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery

St Joseph’s RC Primary School continues to demonstrate strong performance, maintaining its good status as confirmed by the latest inspection. The school environment is positive and nurturing, with a focus on individualized support for pupils. Parents express high satisfaction with the school's communication and the enthusiasm their children exhibit towards learning. The broad curriculum is well-structured, catering effectively to the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Teachers have high expectations, which helps pupils thrive and prepare for future educational stages.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between staff and pupils foster a positive learning atmosphere.
• Broad and ambitious curriculum that is well-planned and sequenced.
• Successful early years provision that prepares children well for Year 1.
• Effective reading program that engages pupils and involves parents.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of extracurricular opportunities.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, learning sequences are not fully implemented as intended.

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 Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery attended 96.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 3.7% 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, 1.7% of pupils at St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery had 17.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.5% 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, 13.7% of pupils at St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.2% 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 Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery received £8,635 and spent £7,907 for each of its 183 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £57,000 (£309 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 Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery is Good, from an inspection in March 2024.

When was St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery last inspected by Ofsted?

St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery was last inspected in March 2024.

How many pupils does St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery have?

St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery has 183 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery cover?

St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 71% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery?

St Joseph's RC Primary School and Nursery is at The Avenue, Walford Road, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, HR9 5AW.