St Catherine's CofE (VC) Primary School
Ofsted: Good
Score
B70
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Kidderminster, DY11 5HP
- Distance
- 0.4km away
Franche Primary School
Chestnut Grove, Kidderminster, DY11 5QB
Local ranking55th of 173 primary schools in Worcestershire
Ofsted: Good
Primary
Phase
960
Capacity
2-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
School history and successor
Continues as Franche Primary School (URN 152698). Its page carries this history forward.
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 1 April 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
- Early years
- Good
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 62.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 8.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 73.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 75.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 75.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 71.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 104.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 104.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 105.0
- Cohort Size
- 114
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 823
- Boys
- 419 (51%)
- Girls
- 404 (49%)
- Capacity
- 960 (86% full)
- SEND
- 29.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 25.9%
- EAL
- 2.3%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.4%
- SEN Support
- 27.1%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 19.7:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 41.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,282/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 5.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 14.3% 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
Loading chart
- White British: 93.2%
- White Other: 1.5%
- Mixed Other: 1.5%
- Gypsy/Roma: 0.7%
- Asian Chinese: 0.5%
- White Irish: 0.4%
- Asian Indian: 0.4%
- White Traveller: 0.2%
93.2%
White British
1.5%
White Other
1.5%
Mixed Other
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Chestnut Grove
Kidderminster, West Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 135050
- UKPRN
- 10071728
- Establishment No.
- 2910
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