St Austin's Catholic Primary School and Nursery

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Stafford, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2024

Not published

From Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2024

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St Austin's Catholic Primary School and Nursery is a primary school in Stafford, Staffordshire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 January 2025. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 entry.

St Austin's Catholic Primary School and Nursery 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

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

What the figures show

10.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 26.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.
Reception 2026 had 18 first-choice applications for 20 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
In 2024/25, 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).

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

Key facts

Address: St Austin's Catholic Primary School and Nursery, Garden Street, Stafford, ST17 4BT
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Religious character: Roman Catholic
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 221 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 10.4% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 25.3

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

Ofsted

Standards maintained Inspected 8 January 2025

Strengths

“St Austin’s is a school that gives pupils a rich, diverse and loving start to their education through a commitment to the school’s motto, ‘learn to love, love to learn’.”
“Staff have high expectations of pupils.”
“As a result, pupils rise to these expectations and achieve well in reading, writing and mathematics.”

To improve

“However, in some subjects, the curriculum is not implemented as the school intends.”
“Checks on learning are not always as effective as they should be.”
“This means some pupils do not remember important knowledge in these subjects.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 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)	75%	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: 18 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 18 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 Staffordshire.

St Paul's Church of England Primary School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Leonard's Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged
Flash Ley Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
Silkmore Primary Academy 0.9 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
Rowley Park Primary Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good
John Wheeldon Primary Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained
St John's CofE Primary Academy 1.0 mi Standards maintained
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good