St Bede's Catholic Primary School

St Bede’s Catholic Primary School is a nurturing, inclusive school where pupils feel safe, behave extremely well and build respectful relationships with adults and each other. The school’s ethos and ‘5 Promises’ shape daily life, attendance is high and pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, achieve well by the end of key stage 2. Parents value the warm and caring environment, and leaders responded sensitively to a recent traumatic event in the local community.

Strengths

• Pupils behave extremely well and show politeness and respect.
• The school provides a nurturing, welcoming and inclusive environment.
• The school’s ethos and ‘5 Promises’ have a positive impact on pupils’ conduct.
• Disadvantaged pupils achieve well by the end of key stage 2.
• The curriculum is ambitious and has high aspirations for all pupils.
• Mathematics and reading are firmly embedded and taught strongly.
• Early reading and phonics are taught consistently, with effective support for pupils who fall behind.
• Children in the early years make good progress and quickly build vocabulary.
• Pupils with SEND are identified quickly and usually learn alongside their peers.
• Attendance is high and the school works hard to remove barriers to attendance.
• Personal development is rich, including sports, choir, residentials, pupil parliament and community activities.
• Governors and trust staff provide robust support and consider staff workload and well-being.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment for pupils with SEND is not yet fully developed.
• It is not clear how well some pupils with SEND are achieving.
• Small-step SMART targets are not consistently in place for pupils with SEND.
• In some recently changed subjects, key skills and concepts have not yet been made clear to teachers.
• Staff have not yet been trained on some key concepts and skills in a small number of subjects.

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 Bede's Catholic Primary School attended 95.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.2% 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 Bede's Catholic 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 Bede's Catholic Primary School had 32.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 17.5% 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, 17.3% of pupils at St Bede's Catholic Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.7% 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 Bede's Catholic Primary School received £6,366 and spent £6,349 for each of its 334 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £82,000 (£245 per pupil).

Across all 14 schools of St Francis Catholic Multi Academy Trust, income was £7,455 and spending £7,395 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 Bede's Catholic Primary School is part of St Francis Catholic Multi Academy Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• St Mary's Catholic Primary School Rotherham
• St Bernard's Catholic High School Rotherham
• St Gerard's Catholic Primary School Rotherham
• Saint Pius X Catholic High School A Specialist School in Humanities Rotherham
• St Mary's Catholic Primary School (Maltby) Rotherham
• St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Sheffield
• St Peter's Catholic Primary School Doncaster
• St Joseph's School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Doncaster
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary School Doncaster
• St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Doncaster

What is St Bede's Catholic Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was St Bede's Catholic Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Bede's Catholic Primary School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does St Bede's Catholic Primary School have?

St Bede's Catholic Primary School has 347 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Bede's Catholic Primary School cover?

St Bede's Catholic Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are St Bede's Catholic Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Bede's Catholic Primary School?

St Bede's Catholic Primary School is at Wortley Road, Kimberworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S61 1PD.