St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School

Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Last distance offered · Reception 2024

0.697 miles

Published by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council · offers on 16 April 2024

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St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 January 2025. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2024 entry.

St. Walburga'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 2024	0.697 mi
Reception 2023	🔒 With a pass

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

For Reception in 2024, the last child offered a place lived 0.697 miles away, the shortest of 9 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole primary schools with a published 2024 last distance.
For Reception 2026, there were 77 first-choice applications for 59 offers: 57 offers went to first-choice families, and 20 first-choice families (26%) were not offered a place.
In 2024/25, 98% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 45% reached the higher standard (England 8%).

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School, Malvern Road, Moordown, Bournemouth, BH9 3BY
Type: Voluntary aided school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–11
Religious character: Roman Catholic
Council: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Pupils on roll: 420 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 9% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22.1

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Standards maintained Inspected 8 January 2025

Strengths

“Pupils relish the high-quality support and care they receive at St.”
“The school sets high expectations for what pupils will learn and how they will behave.”
“Pupils are polite, articulate and kind.”

To improve

“However, the school is accurate in its evaluation that pupils could deepen their knowledge even more in a few subjects.”
“However, the school is working to further strengthen the way staff use the wealth of information they hold to enhance the implementation of the curriculum for some pupils with SEND.”
“However, some approaches to teaching in key stage 1 do not build pupils’ foundational knowledge consistently well.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 February 2025 (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)	98%	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: 77 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 57 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

Queen's Park Academy 0.3 mi Not judged
Queen's Park Infant Academy 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
St Luke's Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
Moordown St John's Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Winton Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Muscliff Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
The Epiphany School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Hill View Primary Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published