St Gregory's Catholic Academy

St Gregory's Catholic Academy is a welcoming and inclusive school where pupils feel safe, happy and valued. Inspectors found that personal development and wellbeing is a strong standard, with a rich programme that builds confidence, resilience and character. Pupils are considerate, support one another, and benefit from highly effective pastoral care. Safeguarding standards are met. Overall, the school is performing at least to expected standards across most areas. Achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, and leadership and governance are all judged as expected standard. Pupils achieve in line with national expectations at key stage 2, and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities progress well from their starting points. Attendance is in line with national figures and improving. Leadership is effective, with a clear vision and strong governance within the Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust. The school serves a community with well-above-average deprivation. The main area for development is writing. While reading and mathematics are prioritised and taught well, pupils are not consistently supported to improve their writing, which can limit how fully some express their understanding in written work. This is the school's next step. No other significant concerns were identified.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and happy, and safeguarding standards are met.
• Personal development and wellbeing is a strong standard, with a rich programme that builds confidence, resilience and character.
• Pupils are considerate, cooperative and empathetic, and take on leadership roles such as house captains and wellbeing ambassadors.
• The wellbeing team, including pupil support, is highly effective in helping pupils who need extra help.
• Pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, achieve well, and those with SEND progress well from their starting points.
• Reading, spelling and number skills are developed securely, preparing pupils well for the next stage.
• Attendance is in line with national figures and improving, with persistent absence falling.
• Pupils have positive attitudes to learning, behave well, and bullying is very rare and dealt with swiftly.
• The curriculum is ambitious, broad and balanced, and taught well, with reading a clear priority.
• Early years provision is effective, with children settling quickly and developing strong language and phonics skills.
• Inclusion is a strong feature; leaders identify needs quickly and provide effective support.
• Leadership and governance are effective, with a clear vision, strong staff development and positive staff morale.
• The school is a nurturing community, and parents are positive.

Areas for Improvement

• Teaching does not consistently support pupils to develop fluency and consistency in writing, which can limit how fully some express their understanding in written responses.

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 Gregory's Catholic Academy attended 95.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.4% 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, 2.2% of pupils at St Gregory's Catholic 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 Gregory's Catholic Academy had 22.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 10.3% of pupils at St Gregory's Catholic Academy 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 2024–25 St Gregory's Catholic Academy received £6,617 and spent £6,653 for each of its 226 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £457,000 (£2,022 per pupil).

Across all 35 schools of Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust, income was £7,699 and spending £7,759 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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All schools in Stockton-On-Tees · Stockton-on-Tees local authority: places and applications

St Gregory's Catholic Academy is part of Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust, which runs 35 schools. The nearest others:

• St Bede's Catholic Academy Stockton-On-Tees
• Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy Stockton-On-Tees
• St Joseph's Catholic Academy Stockton-On-Tees
• St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Stockton Stockton-On-Tees
• St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Stockton Stockton-On-Tees
• St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School Billingham
• Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Academy Billingham
• St Paul's Catholic Primary School Billingham
• St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Billingham
• St Michael's Catholic Academy Billingham

What is St Gregory's Catholic Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Gregory's Catholic Academy is Expected standard, from an inspection in July 2026.

When was St Gregory's Catholic Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

St Gregory's Catholic Academy was last inspected in July 2026.

How many pupils does St Gregory's Catholic Academy have?

St Gregory's Catholic Academy has 224 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Gregory's Catholic Academy cover?

St Gregory's Catholic Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are St Gregory's Catholic Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Gregory's Catholic Academy?

St Gregory's Catholic Academy is at Ragpath Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, TS19 9AD.