Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Southend-on-Sea
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Southend-on-Sea City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Southend-on-Sea for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 9 July 2024. Southend-on-Sea has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Sacred Heart 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 61% was the 3rd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Southend-on-Sea that have results.
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place; there were 46 first-choice applications for 52 offers, with 6 offers going to families ranking it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 26.8% of pupils; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southend-on-Sea is 34.6%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southend-on-Sea schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Windermere Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 2RF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea
- Pupils on roll
- 440 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 9 July 2024
Strengths
- “The school has a warm and friendly ethos.”
- “Pupils respect their teachers and one another.”
- “Pupils show their support in a multitude of ways, from helping others learn lines for the school’s production to celebrating when a peer does well.”
To improve
- “However, in a few classes, staff do not consider carefully enough how to adapt their teaching so that pupils with high prior attainment deepen their thinking.”
- “Similarly, in some lessons, pupils with SEND could achieve more.”
- “On occasion, teachers do not use the best strategies to teach these pupils well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 2024 (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) | 61% | 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: 46 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 46 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 Southend-on-Sea.
- Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Bournemouth Park Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hamstel Infant School and Nursery 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hamstel Junior School 0.7 mi Good
- Greenways Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Temple Sutton Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's, Prittlewell, CofE Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Barons Court Primary School and Nursery 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published