St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Billingham, TS23 3NN · Stockton-on-Tees local authority
Billingham’s School Grade C better than 32% of towns in England
What stands out about St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
- Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 29% of England’s primary schools
- 55% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7 points below England’s schools
- Ofsted: Good, June 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (21 of 21)
- Homes in its postcode sector (TS23 3) sold for a median £149,000; Billingham’s is £145,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 55%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 28% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Stockton-on-Tees avg 65%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 106 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 14 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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 Joseph's Catholic Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
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.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Billingham and Stockton-on-Tees, side by side
2023–2025All 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.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egglescliffe Church of England Primary School | A+ | 6% | 89% |
| Frederick Nattrass Primary Academy | A+ | 53% | 85% |
| Oakdene Primary Academy | A+ | 41% | 85% |
| Junction Farm Primary School | A+ | 15% | 84% |
| The Links Primary School | A+ | 17% | 83% |
| Wynyard Church of England Primary School | A | 1% | 82% |
| Preston Primary School | A | 17% | 81% |
| Norton Primary Academy | A | 38% | 79% |
| Hartburn Primary School | A | 10% | 79% |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Stockton | A | 8% | 79% |
| St Therese of Lisieux Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic Academy | A | 3% | 78% |
| Levendale Primary School | A | 4% | 77% |
| The Oak Tree Academy | A | 76% | 76% |
| St Francis of Assisi Church of England Primary School | A | 7% | 76% |
| St Bede's Catholic Academy | A− | 54% | 75% |
| Barley Fields Primary | A− | 4% | 72% |
| Myton Park Primary School | A− | 5% | 71% |
| Oxbridge Lane Primary School | A− | 45% | 71% |
| Fairfield Primary School | B+ | 21% | 70% |
| Whinstone Primary School | B+ | 15% | 70% |
| Kirklevington Primary School | B+ | 9% | 70% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Academy | B+ | 13% | 70% |
| Village Primary School | B+ | 53% | 69% |
| Whitehouse Primary School | B+ | 18% | 69% |
| Yarm Primary School | B+ | 8% | 68% |
| Christ The King Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic Academy | B+ | 44% | 68% |
| St Paul's Catholic Primary School | B | 5% | 67% |
| Crooksbarn Primary School | B | 5% | 67% |
| Layfield Primary School | B | 22% | 67% |
| Wolviston Primary School | B | 6% | 67% |
| Prior's Mill CofE Primary School | B | 9% | 67% |
| Harewood Primary School | B | 56% | 67% |
| The Glebe Primary School | B | 38% | 66% |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School | B | 9% | 66% |
| St Mark's Church of England Primary School | B | 19% | 65% |
| Bewley Primary School | B | 26% | 65% |
| St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic Academy | B− | 31% | 64% |
| William Cassidi Church of England Aided Primary School | B− | 26% | 61% |
| Bader Primary School | B− | 47% | 61% |
| St Gregory's Catholic Academy | C | 23% | 56% |
| Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Academy | C | 37% | 56% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | C | 28% | 55% |
| St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Stockton | C | 33% | 55% |
| Billingham South Community Primary School | C− | 36% | 53% |
| Harrow Gate Academy | C− | 54% | 52% |
| Bowesfield Primary School | C− | 57% | 50% |
| Roseberry Primary School | C− | 50% | 50% |
| Rosebrook Primary School | D | 51% | 47% |
| Thornaby Church of England Primary School | D | 41% | 47% |
| Hardwick Green Primary Academy | D | 71% | 44% |
| St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School | D | 31% | 44% |
| Pentland Primary School | D | 39% | 44% |
| Mill Lane Primary School | D | 55% | 42% |
| St John the Baptist Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | D− | 76% | 34% |
| Mandale Mill Primary School | D− | 74% | 26% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025201 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 Joseph's Catholic Primary School’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.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, June 2024.
Living near St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in TS23 3, the school’s postcode sector
Billingham property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in TS23 3 sell for about the same as 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 schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Billingham, TS23 3NN
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School: common questions
Is St Joseph's Catholic Primary School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 29% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 55% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, June 2024.
How hard is it to get into St Joseph's Catholic Primary School?
For September 2026, 21 families put St Joseph's Catholic Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 21 places were offered in all.
What is St Joseph's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2024).
How much do houses cost near St Joseph's Catholic Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, TS23 3, sold for a median £149,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (461 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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