St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy

St Marie's School continues to perform well, maintaining its status as a good school. The nurturing environment fostered by leaders and staff has positively impacted pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, who achieve commendably across the curriculum. The school offers a well-structured curriculum complemented by a variety of extracurricular activities that promote pupil engagement and broader development. High expectations are instilled among pupils, contributing to their good behavior and positive relationships within the school community.

Strengths

• Nurturing environment with caring staff
• Strong provision for pupils with SEND
• Ambitious and well-sequenced curriculum
• Effective teaching of phonics and reading in early years
• Strong focus on pupils' wider development and safety

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent use of assessment information in phonics
• Mathematics tasks can be overly complex for some pupils

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 Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy attended 97.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 1.6% 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, 0.0% of pupils at St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy 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 Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy had 26.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 26.4% 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, 10.5% of pupils at St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.3% 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 2024–25 St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy received £6,167 and spent £6,929 for each of its 221 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £117,000 (-£531 per pupil).

Across all 13 schools of St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Trust, income was £8,072 and spending £8,099 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy is part of St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Trust, which runs 13 schools. The nearest others:

• Notre Dame High School Sheffield
• St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School Sheffield
• Sacred Heart School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy Sheffield
• All Saints' Catholic High School Sheffield
• St Catherine's Catholic Primary School (Hallam) Sheffield
• St Thomas of Canterbury School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Sheffield
• Emmaus Catholic and CofE Primary School Sheffield
• St John Fisher Primary, A Catholic Voluntary Academy Sheffield
• St Mary's Primary School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy Sheffield
• St Ann's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Sheffield

What is St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy is Good, from an inspection in January 2023.

When was St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy was last inspected in January 2023.

How many pupils does St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy have?

St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy has 237 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy cover?

St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 76% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy?

St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy is at Fulwood Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S10 3DQ.