St John Bosco Catholic Primary School

St John Bosco Catholic Primary School is performing exceptionally well across all areas. Pupils are proud to attend this nurturing, inclusive school, achieve highly and behave exceptionally well within a calm and respectful ethos. The curriculum is highly ambitious and precisely sequenced from Nursery to Year 6, with particularly strong reading provision, effective staff development and excellent support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Children in the early years get a strong start, and personal development is exceptionally broad through clubs, trips, leadership roles and enrichment activities. Leadership is very strong, with staff well supported and a shared vision across the school, trust and local governing board. Safeguarding is effective, and relationships with parents and the local community are excellent. The report identifies no areas for improvement. This was the school’s first routine section 5 inspection and its first since the COVID-19 pandemic. It had previously been judged outstanding before becoming an academy and is now part of St John Bosco Multi Academy Company. As inspections from September 2024 do not award an overall effectiveness grade, the school received outstanding judgements in each key judgement and for early years provision.

Strengths

• Highly ambitious and precisely sequenced curriculum from Nursery to Year 6
• Strong reading provision with skilful phonics teaching and effective interventions
• Excellent support for pupils with SEND, including high-quality provision in the Sunshine Room
• Exemplary pupil behaviour rooted in a clear shared ethos
• Exceptional personal development offer with clubs, trips, careers learning and leadership roles
• Children get a strong start in the early years and become resilient, independent learners
• Staff benefit from highly effective professional development
• Strong, respectful relationships between pupils and staff
• Excellent communication with parents and strong community links
• Highly effective challenge and support from the trust and local governing board
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

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 John Bosco Catholic Primary School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.5% 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, 0.4% of pupils at St John Bosco 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 John Bosco Catholic Primary School had 21.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 32.3% 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, 13.5% of pupils at St John Bosco Catholic Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.3% 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 John Bosco Catholic Primary School received £9,623 and spent £9,990 for each of its 238 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £159,000 (£668 per pupil).

Across all 56 schools of St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, income was £7,565 and spending £7,594 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 West Bromwich · Sandwell local authority: places and applications

St John Bosco Catholic Primary School is part of St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, which runs 64 schools. The nearest others:

• St Mary's Catholic Primary School Wednesbury
• Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School Wednesbury
• Holy Name Catholic Primary School Birmingham
• St Mark's Catholic Primary School Birmingham
• St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Dudley
• Bishop Milner Catholic College Dudley
• St Chad's Catholic Primary School Dudley
• St Teresa's Catholic Primary Academy Wolverhampton
• Holy Rosary Catholic Primary Academy Wolverhampton
• St Patrick's Catholic Primary Academy Wolverhampton

What is St John Bosco Catholic Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St John Bosco Catholic Primary School is Outstanding, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was St John Bosco Catholic Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St John Bosco Catholic Primary School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does St John Bosco Catholic Primary School have?

St John Bosco Catholic Primary School has 244 pupils on roll.

What age range does St John Bosco Catholic Primary School cover?

St John Bosco Catholic Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 83% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St John Bosco Catholic Primary School?

St John Bosco Catholic Primary School is at Monmouth Drive, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B71 2ST.