Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
Ofsted: Requires improvement
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Peterlee, SR8 4AB
- Distance
- 0.9km away
Seascape Primary School
Ellison Road, Peterlee, SR8 5NJ
Local ranking199th of 200 primary schools in County Durham
Ofsted: Urgent improvement
Primary
Phase
385
Capacity
2-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2025 SATs · Ofsted inspection 13 January 2026.
Placed in a category of concern: Special measures.
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Curriculum & teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance & behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Leadership & governance
- Urgent improvement
- Inclusion
- Needs attention
- Early years
- Urgent improvement
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 7.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 0.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 33.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 22.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 11.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 33.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 100.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 94.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 97.0
- Cohort Size
- 27
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 267
- Boys
- 144 (55%)
- Girls
- 119 (45%)
- Capacity
- 385 (68% full)
- SEND
- 28.1%
- FSM Eligible
- 73.8%
- EAL
- 6.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 7.1%
- SEN Support
- 21.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 16.4:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 15.4
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,890/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 10.0% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 29.2% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 88.0%
- Black African: 2.6%
- Black Other: 1.9%
- White Other: 1.1%
- Asian Indian: 1.1%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.1%
- White Traveller: 0.8%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.8%
88.0%
White British
2.6%
Black African
1.9%
Black Other
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Ellison Road
Peterlee, North East
Administrative
- URN
- 133701
- UKPRN
- 10069416
- Establishment No.
- 2004
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