St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy

St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy is a happy, welcoming primary school where pupils from diverse backgrounds feel part of a community. Inspectors judged the school good across all key areas, with strong relationships, excellent behaviour and a well-designed curriculum that breaks learning into clear steps and supports pupils with SEND and those who speak English as an additional language. Reading and language are high priorities, staff are well trained, and pupils who join mid-year receive personalised help to catch up. Early years provision is also good, and leadership has improved the school since its previous requires improvement judgement.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, polite and feel part of a welcoming community.
• Excellent behaviour and respectful relationships across the school.
• A carefully designed curriculum with clear steps and effective revisiting of prior learning.
• Strong support for pupils with SEND and those who speak English as an additional language.
• Expert phonics teaching and rapid intervention for pupils with limited English.
• Pupils enjoy reading and talk enthusiastically about stories.
• Teachers have secure subject knowledge and adapt lessons to secure understanding.
• Early years children develop communication skills through imaginative role play.
• Personalised support helps pupils who join mid-year to catch up.
• A wide range of clubs, leadership roles and enrichment experiences.
• Leaders have made significant improvements and staff feel well supported.
• Governors and trustees provide highly effective support and challenge.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils do not attend school regularly enough, which limits their progress and attainment.
• The school should strengthen strategies with the wider community to improve attendance.
• Pupils' recall and understanding of fundamental British values, protected characteristics and world faiths is inconsistent.
• Personal development in these areas needs to be embedded so pupils are consistently prepared for life in modern Britain.

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 Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy attended 88.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 29.2% 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 Charles Voluntary 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 Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy had 19.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.2% 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, 12.4% of pupils at St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.2% 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 Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy received £6,806 and spent £6,548 for each of its 197 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £55,000 (£279 per pupil).

Across all 15 schools of St Cuthbert'S Roman Catholic Academy Trust, income was £8,000 and spending £7,769 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 Hull · Kingston upon Hull, City of local authority: places and applications

St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy is part of St Cuthbert'S Roman Catholic Academy Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• St Vincent's Voluntary Catholic Academy Hull
• Endsleigh Holy Child VC Academy Hull
• St Mary's College Voluntary Catholic Academy Hull
• St Mary Queen of Martyrs VC Academy Hull
• St Anthony's Voluntary Catholic Academy Hull
• St Richard's VC Academy Hull
• St Thomas More Voluntary Catholic Academy Hull
• St John of Beverley Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy Beverley
• St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy York
• St Mary & St Joseph Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy Pocklington

What is St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy have?

St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy has 169 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy cover?

St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 36% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy?

St Charles Voluntary Catholic Academy is at Norfolk Street, Hull, HU2 9AA.