St Peter's Catholic Primary School

St Peter's Catholic Primary School is performing well overall, with strong standards across various domains. The school has established a positive culture for safeguarding, ensuring that pupils feel safe and secure. The ambitious curriculum designed by leaders provides pupils with essential skills and knowledge, preparing them well for future learning. High attendance rates and well-behaved pupils contribute to a calm and respectful environment, promoting positive attitudes towards learning. The school works closely with parents and external agencies to support pupils, particularly those with barriers to attendance or additional needs.

Strengths

• High pupil attendance and effective support for those facing barriers.
• Strong relationships between staff and pupils fostering a caring environment.
• Ambitious curriculum designed to meet the needs of all pupils.
• Effective inclusion practices ensuring all pupils receive necessary support.
• Well-planned personal development programs enhancing skills for community involvement.
• Strong focus on reading and phonics leading to confident and fluent readers.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent quality in pupils' handwriting and spelling.

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 Primary School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.1% 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, 2.6% of pupils at St Peter'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 St Peter's Catholic Primary School had 23.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.4% 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, 15.9% of pupils at St Peter's Catholic Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.5% 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 Primary School received £6,211 and spent £6,448 for each of its 193 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £110,000 (-£570 per pupil).

Across all 13 schools of Bosco Catholic Education Trust, income was £6,193 and spending £6,300 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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St Peter's Catholic Primary School is part of Bosco Catholic Education Trust, which runs 18 schools. The nearest others:

• St Mary's Catholic Primary School Worthing
• St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School Littlehampton
• St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School Burgess Hill
• St Paul's Catholic College Burgess Hill
• St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Littlehampton Littlehampton
• St Philip's Catholic Primary School Arundel
• St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Haywards Heath
• St Philip Howard Catholic School Bognor Regis
• St Robert Southwell Catholic Primary School, Horsham Horsham
• Annecy Catholic Primary School Seaford

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

The latest Ofsted rating for St Peter's Catholic Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in April 2026.

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

St Peter's Catholic Primary School was last inspected in April 2026.

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

St Peter's Catholic Primary School has 201 pupils on roll.

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

St Peter's Catholic Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Peter's Catholic Primary School?

St Peter's Catholic Primary School is at Sullington Way, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, BN43 6PJ.