St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy

About St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy

St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School in Rossendale received an Inadequate rating from Ofsted following its most recent graded inspection in April 2024, a significant decline from the Good rating it held in its previous inspection in 2018. The inspectors judged behaviour and attitudes, as well as leadership and management, as Inadequate, while quality of education, personal development and early years provision were all rated Requires improvement. On academic outcomes, the most telling metric is the Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard: just 37% of pupils achieved this benchmark, compared with a local authority average of 60% for similar schools. That places the school 28th out of 31 primary schools in Rossendale, and in the bottom 10% nationally. No pupils reached the higher standard across all three subjects, and while reading and writing expected rates were 53% and 63% respectively, maths was notably lower at 42%.

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