All Saints Catholic Voluntary Academy

About All Saints Catholic Voluntary Academy

All Saints Catholic Voluntary Academy in High Peak has a clear story to tell about academic improvement. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection in December 2022 confirmed it remains Good, a significant step up from its previous overall rating of Requires Improvement in 2014. The inspection report notes that leadership and management, as well as early years provision, are now rated Good. But the most telling metric comes from the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results: 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That’s well above the Derbyshire local authority average of 59% for primary schools, and it places All Saints 4th out of 34 schools in High Peak. The school also ranks in the top 25% nationally for this measure, which is a strong indicator of consistent teaching and pupil progress.

Digging into the detail, the school’s performance is particularly strong in reading. 88% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, and 63% achieved the higher standard — a notably high figure. In writing, 75% met expectations and 38% hit the higher bar, while maths saw 75% at expected and 25% at the higher level. Average scaled scores were 109 in reading and 104 in maths, both above the national benchmark of 100. The school doesn’t publish progress scores for reading, writing or maths, so it’s hard to say how much value it adds relative to pupils’ starting points, but the raw outcomes are solid. With only 70 pupils on roll, these figures represent a small cohort, so individual results can swing the percentages more than at a larger school. Still, the pattern is consistent: this is a school where most children leave Year 6 well prepared for secondary school.

All Saints is a small, oversubscribed Roman Catholic primary with a strong sense of community. It received 13 applications for just 3 places in the 2025/26 admissions round, giving an oversubscription ratio of 4.33 to one — so getting in is competitive, especially for families outside the faith catchment. The school offers a range of facilities including a chapel, sensory room, music rooms and an ICT suite, plus clubs like coding, art, science and choir. Sports include gymnastics, football, dance and rounders. SEND provision covers specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, speech and language needs, social and emotional mental health, and autistic spectrum disorder. With 24.3% of pupils eligible for free school meals, the school serves a mixed catchment. It’s best suited to Catholic families in the High Peak area who value strong academic outcomes in a small, nurturing setting — though the data suggests any family prioritising reading attainment would find plenty to like here.

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