St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Enfield
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Enfield Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Enfield for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 15 November 2023. Enfield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
St Mary's Catholic Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for Reception 2026 was offered a place; 50 of the 58 other Enfield primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome did the same.
- There were 20 first-choice applications for 21 Reception offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 72% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Enfield.
- At the higher standard in reading, writing and maths, the 2024/25 figure was 13% (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Enfield schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Durants Road, Ponders End, Enfield, EN3 7DE
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Enfield
- Pupils on roll
- 334 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 15 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are eager to come to school each morning because their teachers do their best to help them learn and because they have kind friends to play with.”
- “Pupils learn in a calm environment.”
- “This is because the school has high expectations for pupils which start in the nursery.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes in the early years adults do not model and extend children’s language effectively.”
- “This means that some pupils miss out on opportunities to hear and practise new words while they are learning.”
- “Generally, pupils attend well, but the school is continuing work to improve attendance even further.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 72% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 20 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 20 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Enfield.
- Alma Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Kingfisher Hall Primary Academy 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Matthew's CofE Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Southbury Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Brimsdown Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St James CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Woodpecker Hall Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Suffolks Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published