St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot
Ascot, SL5 9HG · Windsor and Maidenhead local authority
Ascot’s School Grade A better than 87% of towns in England
What stands out about St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot
- Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 98% of England’s primary schools
- 88% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 26 points above England’s schools
- 2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Outstanding, July 2024 (shown, not graded)
- 81% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (29 of 36)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SL5 9) sold for a median £790,000; Ascot’s is £662,500
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 88%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 98% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Windsor and Maidenhead avg 63%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 110, maths 110 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot?
81% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (4), 2021 (13), 2022 (17), 2023 (3), 2024 (2), 2025 (1), 2026 (7). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Windsor and Maidenhead council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
81% got their first choice
Ascot and Windsor and Maidenhead, side by side
2023–2025All 31 graded primaries in Windsor and Maidenhead. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Ascot’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowbrook Academy | A+ | 5% | 99% |
| St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary School and Nursery | A+ | 4% | 89% |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot | A+ | 2% | 88% |
| Oldfield Primary School | A+ | 9% | 83% |
| Cookham Dean CofE Primary School | A | 8% | 81% |
| Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Sunningdale | A | 5% | 77% |
| Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Cookham | A | 3% | 76% |
| Braywick Court School | A | 9% | 76% |
| Waltham St Lawrence Primary School | A− | 7% | 71% |
| Cheapside CofE Primary School | B+ | 15% | 69% |
| Furze Platt Junior School | B | 18% | 67% |
| South Ascot Village Primary School | B | 15% | 67% |
| White Waltham CofE Academy | B | 6% | 66% |
| Cookham Rise Primary School | B | 14% | 65% |
| St Edward's Royal Free Ecumenical Middle School, Windsor | B− | 10% | 64% |
| Holyport CofE Primary School | B− | 10% | 63% |
| Trevelyan Middle School | B− | 13% | 63% |
| Larchfield Primary and Nursery School | C+ | 42% | 59% |
| Knowl Hill Church of England Primary Academy | C+ | 16% | 59% |
| St Michael's CofE Primary School, Sunninghill | C+ | 11% | 58% |
| St Luke's CofE Primary School | C | 21% | 56% |
| Datchet St Mary's CofE Primary School | C− | 25% | 53% |
| Courthouse Junior School | C− | 16% | 52% |
| Dedworth Middle School | C− | 28% | 52% |
| St Peter's Church of England Middle School | C− | 14% | 51% |
| Bisham Church of England Academy | C− | 23% | 51% |
| Riverside Primary School and Nursery | C− | 34% | 50% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead | C− | 17% | 48% |
| Wessex Primary School | D | 28% | 46% |
| Wraysbury Primary School | D− | 25% | 34% |
| Woodlands Park Primary School | D− | 39% | 32% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025208 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Outstanding, July 2024.
Living near St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SL5 9, the school’s postcode sector
Ascot property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SL5 9 sell for well over Ascot’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
3 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Ascot, SL5 9HG
St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot: common questions
Is St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 98% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A+), with 88% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, July 2024.
How hard is it to get into St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot?
For September 2026, 36 families put St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot first and 29 of them were offered a place; 29 places were offered in all.
What is St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (July 2024).
How much do houses cost near St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot?
Homes in its postcode sector, SL5 9, sold for a median £790,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (303 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Ascot’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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