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St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy

High Peak, SK22 3BL · Derbyshire · primary school

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Ofsted: Good · 2023 Inspected 3 years ago Mixed Primary Roman Catholic
5.4/10 Broadly average

95th of 263 primary schools in Derbyshire we can score, 353 in total — the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.

Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still — 6.4/10 against 2,736 of them, against 5.6/10 nationally. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.

How this is worked out
MeasurePercentileWeightAdds
Expected standard (RWM) 2024/25 70.0 · 65 40% 2.62
Ofsted 52 35% 1.81
Higher standard (RWM) 2024/25 5.0 · 40 25% 1.00

Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.

Get to know the school

How it's doing. In 2024/25, 70.0% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, compared to the national median of 64%. Only 5.0% reached the higher standard. Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still (6.4 out of 10 against similar schools, 5.6 out of 10 against all schools). Ofsted rated the school Good in March 2023.

Getting in. The school has 118 pupils in a capacity of 119 places, leaving just 1 spare place. This means the school is close to full, so places are likely to be competitive.

Worth asking on a visit. With only 1 place remaining, how does the school handle waiting lists for new starters? Since the last inspection was in 2023, what changes have been made to the curriculum since then? How does the school support pupils who are not reaching the higher standard in core subjects?

Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.

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