St Mary's RC Infants School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–7 · Carshalton, Sutton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From London Borough of Sutton · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's RC Infants School is a primary school in Carshalton, Sutton for ages 3–7 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 September 2023. Sutton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Mary's RC Infants 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place for 2026, as was the case at 18 of the 33 other Sutton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026, there were 63 first-choice applications for 67 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 1.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 10.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sutton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sutton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- West Street, Carshalton, SM5 2PT
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Sutton
- Pupils on roll
- 284 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 1.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy at this school.”
- “A nurturing, caring and supportive ethos threads through every aspect of school life.”
- “Pupils said that St Mary’s is a school where ‘they have kind hands, and sharing is caring.’”
To improve
- “However, in Years 1 and 2, occasionally, the additional help is not as effective as the school intends it to be.”
- “This is because it is not focused with sufficient precision on enabling these pupils to gain quickly the phonics knowledge that they need to become fluent, confident readers.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 63 first-preference applications, 67 offers in total, 63 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 Sutton.
- St Mary's RC Junior School 0.1 mi Improved significantly
- Harris Junior Academy Carshalton 0.2 mi Not judged
- Victor Seymour Infants' School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- All Saints Carshalton Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Rushy Meadow Primary Academy 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Muschamp Primary School and Language Opportunity Base 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stanley Park Infants School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Stanley Park Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good