Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School

Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School is a caring, inclusive school where pupils feel valued and achieve well. Inspectors found strong provision in early years, inclusion, and personal development and wellbeing, with safeguarding met. The school's Catholic ethos and pastoral support are central to its work, and disadvantaged pupils outperform their peers nationally. The recently opened 2-year-old provision is strengthening school readiness.

Strengths

• Highly effective early years provision from the 2-year-old offer onwards, with strong routines and language and mathematical support.
• A deeply inclusive culture with precise SEND plans and highly targeted pastoral support.
• Disadvantaged pupils achieve well above national averages across reading, writing and mathematics.
• A strong personal development programme rooted in the Catholic ethos and the local community.
• Pupils learn to read fluently, with timely support for those who need it.
• High expectations of behaviour, with very few behavioural incidents.
• Effective leadership and governance, with clear shared vision and strong trust support.
• A wide range of clubs, pupil roles and careers activities that build belonging and aspiration.
• Attendance is improving and persistent absence is falling.

Areas for Improvement

• The writing curriculum and expectations are not yet consistently embedded across all year groups.
• Some older pupils have not secured correct letter formation and writing fluency.
• Some pupils, including those with SEND, do not develop their writing skills as quickly as they could.
• Attendance remains above national averages for overall absence and persistent absence.
• Leaders' attendance interventions are not yet having sufficient impact, and analysis of which strategies work best needs sharpening.
• Pupils' knowledge and skills are more detailed in some subjects than others.

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 Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School attended 93.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 20.2% 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, 1.5% of pupils at Saint Gabriel'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 Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School had 20.3 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, 13.9% of pupils at Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.0% 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 Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School received £7,959 and spent £7,996 for each of its 197 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £129,000 (£655 per pupil).

Across all 38 schools of Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, income was £7,521 and spending £7,443 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 Middlesbrough · Redcar and Cleveland local authority: places and applications

Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School is part of Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, which runs 38 schools. The nearest others:

• St Pius X Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Middlesbrough
• Corpus Christi RC Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Margaret Clitherows RC Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Peter's Catholic College Middlesbrough
• St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Alphonsus' Catholic Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Mary's Catholic Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Thomas More RC Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Middlesbrough
• Trinity Catholic College Middlesbrough

What is Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School have?

Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School has 194 pupils on roll.

What age range does Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School cover?

Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School?

Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School is at Allendale Road, Ormesby, Middlesbrough, TS7 9LF.