Our Lady's Roman Catholic Primary School

About Our Lady's Roman Catholic Primary School

Our Lady's Roman Catholic Primary School in Oxford holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained across both its most recent inspections in 2022 and 2017. The 2022 graded inspection awarded Good across every category: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The most telling academic metric comes from the school's 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, where 68% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure sits comfortably above the Oxfordshire local authority average of 61%, placing the school 10th out of 31 primary schools in the city of Oxford and in the top 50% nationally. The school's overall ranking score of 68 reflects solid, consistent performance rather than headline-grabbing extremes.

Digging into the individual subject scores reveals a school that is particularly strong in reading. 96% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, and 39% achieved the higher standard — both well above national norms. Writing and maths are also healthy, with 86% and 79% reaching expected levels respectively, and 29% and 36% hitting the higher threshold. The average reading score was 109 and maths 106. The school doesn't publish progress scores, so it's hard to say how much value it adds relative to starting points, but the raw outcomes are clearly strong. The 21% of pupils achieving the higher standard across all three subjects is a respectable figure, and the school's overall performance places it in the top third of primary schools in the South East region.

The school is a one-form entry Catholic primary with nursery provision for children from age three, and it is oversubscribed: for 35 places in 2025/26, there were 84 applications, with 34 of those coming from first-preference families. That's a ratio of 2.4 applicants per place, so getting in requires being in the catchment or having a strong faith connection. Facilities include a library, ICT suite, sensory room, chapel, playing fields and an outdoor playground. Sports on offer include football, tennis, gymnastics, dance and cricket, with clubs covering coding, film and chess. The school's SEND provision is broad, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, speech and language needs, social and emotional mental health, physical disabilities, multi-sensory impairment and autistic spectrum disorder. With 325 pupils on a capacity of 315, it is running slightly over capacity, and 8.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is below the national average. This is a school that suits families who want strong academic foundations in a faith-based, well-resourced setting, but who need to be realistic about the competition for places.

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