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St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11AcademyCatholic

Billingham, TS23 1LJ · Stockton-on-Tees local authority

Billingham’s School Grade C better than 32% of towns in England

Its letter
9%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
12/12
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
124 pupils
64% of its 195 places
Free school meals
31%
31 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School

  • Its own letter, D: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 9%)
  • 44% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18 points below England’s schools
  • Room to spare: 124 pupils for 195 places
  • Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (12 of 12)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TS23 1) sold for a median £135,000; Billingham’s is £145,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 44%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 9% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Stockton-on-Tees avg 65%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary 44%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 109, maths 101 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading86%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)77%
England’s schools 73%
Maths68%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling73%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three0%
England’s schools 8% · Stockton-on-Tees 8% · 2025

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

12
families put it first for September 2026
12
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Stockton-on-Tees council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Billingham, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice

Billingham and Stockton-on-Tees, side by side

2023–2025

All 55 graded primaries in Stockton-on-Tees. 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. Billingham’s schools are coloured by their letter.

25%37%49%61%73%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →St John the Evangelist Catholic
ABCDElsewhere in Stockton-on-TeesSt John the Evangelist Catholic Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Egglescliffe Church of England Primary SchoolA+6%89%
Frederick Nattrass Primary AcademyA+53%85%
Oakdene Primary AcademyA+41%85%
Junction Farm Primary SchoolA+15%84%
The Links Primary SchoolA+17%83%
Wynyard Church of England Primary SchoolA1%82%
Preston Primary SchoolA17%81%
Norton Primary AcademyA38%79%
Hartburn Primary SchoolA10%79%
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, StocktonA8%79%
St Therese of Lisieux Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic AcademyA3%78%
Levendale Primary SchoolA4%77%
The Oak Tree AcademyA76%76%
St Francis of Assisi Church of England Primary SchoolA7%76%
St Bede's Catholic AcademyA−54%75%
Barley Fields PrimaryA−4%72%
Myton Park Primary SchoolA−5%71%
Oxbridge Lane Primary SchoolA−45%71%
Fairfield Primary SchoolB+21%70%
Whinstone Primary SchoolB+15%70%
Kirklevington Primary SchoolB+9%70%
St Joseph's Catholic AcademyB+13%70%
Village Primary SchoolB+53%69%
Whitehouse Primary SchoolB+18%69%
Yarm Primary SchoolB+8%68%
Christ The King Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic AcademyB+44%68%
St Paul's Catholic Primary SchoolB5%67%
Crooksbarn Primary SchoolB5%67%
Layfield Primary SchoolB22%67%
Wolviston Primary SchoolB6%67%
Prior's Mill CofE Primary SchoolB9%67%
Harewood Primary SchoolB56%67%
The Glebe Primary SchoolB38%66%
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolB9%66%
St Mark's Church of England Primary SchoolB19%65%
Bewley Primary SchoolB26%65%
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic AcademyB−31%64%
William Cassidi Church of England Aided Primary SchoolB−26%61%
Bader Primary SchoolB−47%61%
St Gregory's Catholic AcademyC23%56%
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic AcademyC37%56%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolC28%55%
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, StocktonC33%55%
Billingham South Community Primary SchoolC−36%53%
Harrow Gate AcademyC−54%52%
Bowesfield Primary SchoolC−57%50%
Roseberry Primary SchoolC−50%50%
Rosebrook Primary SchoolD51%47%
Thornaby Church of England Primary SchoolD41%47%
Hardwick Green Primary AcademyD71%44%
St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary SchoolD31%44%
Pentland Primary SchoolD39%44%
Mill Lane Primary SchoolD55%42%
St John the Baptist Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolD−76%34%
Mandale Mill Primary SchoolD−74%26%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

146 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.

SEN support
25.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
4.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
28.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 47%Boys 53%
Its letter

St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths DBetter than 9% of 15,230 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting January 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, January 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in TS23 1, the school’s postcode sector

Billingham property prices →
£135,000
median sale, 174 sales in 36 months · Billingham £145,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025TS23 1Billingham
TS23 1Billingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£235K
Semi-detached
£135K
Terraced
£133K
TS23 1Billingham

Homes in TS23 1 sell for a little under Billingham’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

12 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B−ACDBB+CBA+BC−DSt John the Evangelist Cath…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Billingham, TS23 1LJ

St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School: common questions

Is St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 9% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D), with 44% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in January 2026.

How hard is it to get into St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School?

For September 2026, 12 families put St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 12 places were offered in all.

What is St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (January 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, TS23 1, sold for a median £135,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (174 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; Billingham’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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