St Peter's Catholic First School

St Peter’s Catholic First School has been rated as good overall, with commendable performance across various domains such as the quality of education, behaviour, personal development, and leadership. The school successfully promotes a caring environment where pupils feel secure and are encouraged to work hard and be ambitious. The curriculum is broad and balanced, enabling most pupils to meet national expectations in key subjects by the end of key stage 1. However, the school is facing challenges in ensuring that all pupils, especially those with lower attainment, receive adequate support to catch up in their learning.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy and feel secure at school.
• Leaders and staff encourage ambition and hard work among pupils.
• Behaviour is generally good with effective management by staff.
• The school has a strong focus on improving communication and language skills in early years.
• Staff morale is high, and teamwork is evident among adults.

Areas for Improvement

• Teachers lack subject knowledge in some areas, impacting curriculum delivery.
• Support for the lowest attaining pupils in reading is inadequate.
• Pupils' understanding of British values and different cultures is at an early stage.
• A significant number of vulnerable pupils are persistently absent.

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 Peter's Catholic First School attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.9% 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 Peter's Catholic First 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 Peter's Catholic First School had 21.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.5% 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, 16.9% of pupils at St Peter's Catholic First School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.7% 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 Peter's Catholic First School received £6,791 and spent £6,731 for each of its 235 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £160,000 (£681 per pupil).

Across all 24 schools of St Raphael the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, income was £7,227 and spending £7,273 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 Bromsgrove · Worcestershire local authority: places and applications

St Peter's Catholic First School is part of St Raphael the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, which runs 29 schools. The nearest others:

• Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic First School Redditch
• St Bede's Catholic Middle School Redditch
• St Augustine's Catholic High School Redditch
• St Thomas More Catholic First School Redditch
• St Mary's Catholic Primary School Studley
• Our Lady's Catholic Primary School Alcester
• St Benedict's Catholic High School Alcester
• St Mary's Catholic Primary School Henley-In-Arden
• St Mary's Catholic Primary School Evesham
• St Gregory's Catholic Primary School Stratford-Upon-Avon

What is St Peter's Catholic First School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Peter's Catholic First School is Good, from an inspection in January 2023.

When was St Peter's Catholic First School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Peter's Catholic First School was last inspected in January 2023.

How many pupils does St Peter's Catholic First School have?

St Peter's Catholic First School has 219 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Peter's Catholic First School cover?

St Peter's Catholic First School for pupils aged 3 to 9.

Where is St Peter's Catholic First School?

St Peter's Catholic First School is at Rock Hill, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B61 7LH.