St Charles Catholic Primary School

About St Charles Catholic Primary School

St Charles Catholic Primary School sits in the Kensington and Chelsea local authority, a London borough with 28 state primary schools. It ranks 12th out of those 28, placing it in the top half of local primaries. The three highest-ranked peers in the area are Oratory Roman Catholic Primary School, Fox Primary School, and Thomas Jones Primary School, each with a ranking score of 93. St Charles itself is a Roman Catholic mixed primary for children aged 3 to 11, with a current roll of 214 pupils against a capacity of 330. The school has a nursery provision and is led by headteacher G Hampton. Its most recent Ofsted inspection, an ungraded visit in November 2023, confirmed that the school remains Good, an improvement from its previous graded inspection in 2014, when it was rated Good overall with Good leadership and management. The earlier 2012 inspection had rated the school as Requires Improvement, so the trajectory has been positive.

In the 2023/24 academic year, 78% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined at Key Stage 2, comfortably above the local authority average of 72%. The school’s ranking score of 78 is based on this KS2 combined expected measure, placing it in the top 25% of schools nationally. Subject-level results show 84% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, 84% in writing, and 84% in maths. At the higher standard, 49% achieved in reading, 16% in writing, and 53% in maths. Average scaled scores were 108 in both reading and maths. The school does not have a sixth form, as it is a primary, and progress scores are not available in the data. The Ofsted report from 2014 noted Good leadership and management, and the 2023 ungraded inspection found the school continues to meet that standard, with no graded breakdown provided for the most recent visit.

The school is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, there were 47 applications for 29 places, an oversubscription ratio of 1.62, with all 26 first-preference applicants receiving offers. Facilities include playing fields, a sports hall, music rooms, an art studio, an ICT suite, a chapel, and an outdoor playground. Sports on offer are gymnastics, athletics, tennis, cross country, rounders, and football. Clubs include film, gardening, coding, and drama. SEND provisions cover specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulties. The nearest outstanding-rated primary school is St Thomas' CofE Primary School, half a kilometre away. This school suits Catholic families in Kensington and Chelsea who want a faith-based primary with strong core academic results, a nursery, and a broad range of clubs and sports, though they should be prepared for competition for places.

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