St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Hunslet

About St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Hunslet

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Hunslet is a state-funded, mixed primary for children aged 4 to 11, and it’s a school that local families clearly want to get into. With 206 pupils on roll against a capacity of 210, it’s running very close to full, and the oversubscription figures tell a similar story: for 26 places in the 2025/26 intake, the school received 96 applications, giving an oversubscription ratio of 3. 69. Of those, 25 were first-preference offers, meaning nearly every place went to a family who put St Joseph’s top of their list. The proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals sits at 25. 7%, which is noticeably above the national average for primary schools (typically around 23-24%) and suggests the school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage. That context makes its academic performance, which we’ll come to, all the more striking. The school’s religious character is Roman Catholic, and while the data doesn’t specify admissions criteria beyond oversubscription, the faith designation will shape the intake for many families.

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