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St Edward's Catholic Junior School

Primary Ages 7-11 256 pupils Aylesbury
Ofsted: Good
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St Edward's Catholic Junior School is an academy converter in Aylesbury for pupils aged 7 to 11. It has a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 256 pupils on roll. The latest Ofsted rating for St Edward's Catholic Junior School is Good, from an inspection in November 2018 of its predecessor, St Edward's Catholic Junior School. In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. It has fewer teachers for its size than most primary schools: 27.7 pupils for each teacher in 2025/26, against 20.7 nationally.

Ofsted inspection: February 2025. KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy converter
Age Range 7-11
Religion Roman Catholic
Address Hazell Avenue
Bedgrove
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP21 7JF
Phone 01296424544
Reference Number 148670

General Makeup

Number of pupils 256
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 51.95%
Girls: 48.05%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 21.5%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 42.6%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 32
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 32

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
3 36 28 64
4 33 31 64
5 31 33 64
6 33 31 64

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 23.4%
African 15.2%
Indian 13.7%
Asian, Other 12.1%
White, Other 11.7%
Pakistani 8.6%
White & Asian 3.1%
Mixed, Other 3.1%
White & Black (Caribbean) 2.3%
Unclassified 1.2%
Caribbean 1.2%
Chinese 0.8%
White & Black (African) 0.8%
Irish 0.8%

This school has not been graded since it changed URN, usually on converting to an academy. The rating shown is from its predecessor, St Edward's Catholic Junior School, inspected in November 2018.

Overall Ofsted Rating Good
Last Report Date 07 Jan 2025 – no overall grade published for this inspection
Date Report
07 Jan 2025 School inspection
07 Oct 2021 Academy conversion letter
13 Nov 2018 Short inspection
Previously as St Edward's Catholic Junior School
23 Oct 2014 Full inspection:
29 Mar 2011 Full inspection:
11 Mar 2008 Full inspection:
06 May 2003 Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 80%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 9%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 110
Maths 107

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 0.9
Writing 0.3
Maths 0.6

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 St Edward's Catholic Junior School had 256 pupils for 240 places. That is 16 more pupils than the school has room for.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Aylesbury Town Primary” planning area

Buckinghamshire counted 1,308 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 1,376 in 2029–30, up 5%.

2022202320242025
Places 240240240240
Pupils 256256256256
Unfilled 0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%

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 Edward's Catholic Junior School attended 96.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 5.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

2022202320242025
Authorised absence 5.3%4.6%3.4%3.0%
Unauthorised absence 1.1%1.1%0.9%0.8%
Severely absent pupils 1.1%0.4%1.1%0.8%

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 Edward's Catholic Junior School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

2022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 0.00.00.00.0
Permanent exclusions 0000

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 Edward's Catholic Junior School had 27.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.2% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

20222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 12.111.213.513.615.8
Teachers who left state teaching 5.1%5.8%17.4%9.6%–
Teachers who took any sick leave –66.7%75.0%45.5%–
Sick days per teacher –12.85.86.1–

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, 16.0% of pupils at St Edward's Catholic Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Social, emotional and mental health 13 3
No specialist assessment of need 10 0
Speech, language and communication needs 9 1
Specific learning difficulty 6 3
Autistic spectrum disorder 1 1
Moderate learning difficulty 1 0
Other difficulty or disability 1 0

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 Edward's Catholic Junior School received £6,352 and spent £6,484 for each of its 255 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £246,000 (£963 per pupil).

Across all 17 schools of St Thomas Catholic Academies Trust, income was £7,112 and spending £7,057 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

202320242025
Revenue reserve £248,000£218,000£246,000
per pupil £967£851£963
In-year balance -£32,000-£41,000-£34,000
per pupil -£123-£161-£132

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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0.08 miles
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0.15 miles
Turnfurlong Infant School
Turnfurlong Lane, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7PL
0.15 miles
Broughton Junior School
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0.41 miles
Broughton Community Schools (Infants)
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0.52 miles
Bedgrove Junior School
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0.53 miles
Bedgrove Infant School
Ingram Avenue, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 9DJ
0.59 miles
William Harding School
Hazlehurst Drive, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 9TJ
0.68 miles
Stoke Mandeville Hospital Classes
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1.07 miles
Kingsbrook View Primary Academy
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Oak Green School
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Booker Park Community School
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1.38 miles
Orchard View Primary Academy
Armstrongs Fields, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 7BR
1.39 miles
Ashmead Combined School
Cole Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8SU
1.42 miles
Bearbrook Combined School
Fowler Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 7QP
1.57 miles
Stoke Mandeville Combined School
Lower Road, Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5XA
1.72 miles
Haydon Abbey School and Pre-School
Weedon Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 9NS
1.77 miles
Name Distance
The Grange School
Wendover Way, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7NH
0.39 miles
Aylesbury High School
Walton Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7SX
0.52 miles
Aylesbury Grammar School
Walton Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7RP
0.53 miles
Red Balloon Aylesbury
Audley House, 15 Walton Terrace, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7QY
0.7 miles
Stocklake Park Community School
Stocklake, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1DP
0.85 miles
The Mandeville School
Ellen Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8ES
1.3 miles
The Kingsbrook School
Armstrongs Fields, Broughton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 7BR
1.31 miles
Buckinghamshire College Group
Oxford Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PD
1.4 miles
Pebble Brook School
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1.45 miles
Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School
Oxford Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PE
1.45 miles
Aylesbury UTC
Oxford Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 8PB
1.56 miles
The Pace Centre
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1.93 miles
The Aylesbury Vale Academy
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3.15 miles
John Colet School
Wharf Road, Wendover, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 6HF
3.74 miles
Macintyre School
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4.32 miles
Chiltern Way Academy
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4.33 miles

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What is St Edward's Catholic Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Edward's Catholic Junior School is Good, from an inspection in November 2018 of its predecessor, St Edward's Catholic Junior School.

When was St Edward's Catholic Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Edward's Catholic Junior School was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does St Edward's Catholic Junior School have?

St Edward's Catholic Junior School has 256 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Edward's Catholic Junior School cover?

St Edward's Catholic Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

What are St Edward's Catholic Junior School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Edward's Catholic Junior School?

St Edward's Catholic Junior School is at Hazell Avenue, Bedgrove, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP21 7JF.

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