St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · Rotherham
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
Not published
From Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2018–2019 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Rotherham for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Rotherham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2024 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 2024 | Not published |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There were 25 first-choice applications for 28 Reception offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In January 2026, 25.1% of pupils were eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Rotherham was 52.6%.
- The school has 26.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Rotherham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Rotherham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Herringthorpe Valley Road, Rotherham, S65 2NU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Rotherham
- Pupils on roll
- 211 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “St Mary’s is a caring, friendly school that nurtures warm, positive relationships between pupils, parents and staff.”
- “The school’s Catholic values are reflected in the ethos of the school, where everyone is ‘celebrated and valued’.”
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy coming to school.”
To improve
- “They recognise that some subjects, such as computing, are in the early stages of implementation, but they are determined to continue the journey of curriculum improvement.”
- “However, this is not the case in all subjects.”
- “Leaders recognise that they have not yet developed an effective system for checking what pupils know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 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) | 74% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 25 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 Rotherham.
- Badsley Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged
- Herringthorpe Junior School 0.6 mi Not judged
- Herringthorpe Infant School 0.6 mi Not judged
- East Dene Primary 0.7 mi Good
- High Greave Infant School 0.7 mi Not judged
- High Greave Junior School 0.7 mi Standards maintained
- Trinity Croft CofE Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Coleridge Primary 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published