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Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools

PrimaryAges 4–11Voluntary aidedRoman Catholic

Southampton, SO16 9LP · Southampton local authority

Southampton’s School Grade C− better than 23% of towns in England

Its letter
85%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
55/60
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
412 pupils
98% of its 420 places
Free school meals
26%
26 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools

  • Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 85% of England’s primary schools
  • 76% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14 points above England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Inspected, May 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • 92% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (55 of 60)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SO16 9) sold for a median £245,000; Southampton’s is £260,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 76%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 85% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Southampton avg 58%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools 76%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 108 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading80%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)92%
England’s schools 73%
Maths92%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling85%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 14 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
57%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
84%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three17%
England’s schools 8% · Southampton 7% · 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 Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools?

92% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

60
families put it first for September 2026
59
places offered
92%
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (3), 2021 (2), 2022 (15), 2024 (1), 2025 (1), 2026 (5). 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. The school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Southampton council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Southampton, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.45 per place
68% got their first choice
1.35 per place
72% got their first choice
1.25 per place
80% got their first choice
1.25 per place
80% got their first choice
1.24 per place
74% got their first choice
1.09 per place
89% got their first choice
1.07 per place
87% got their first choice
1.03 per place
93% got their first choice
Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
1.02 per place
92% got their first choice

Southampton and Southampton, side by side

2023–2025

All 43 graded primaries in Southampton. 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. Southampton’s schools are coloured by their letter.

15%28%41%54%67%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →
ABCDElsewhere in SouthamptonHoly Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
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SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Springhill Catholic Primary SchoolA+13%88%
Mansel Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of SchoolsA59%82%
Sinclair Primary and Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of SchoolsA33%79%
Portswood Primary SchoolA29%78%
Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of SchoolsA26%76%
Fairisle Junior SchoolA−44%75%
Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of SchoolsA−16%74%
Highfield Church of England Primary SchoolA−13%74%
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolA−24%71%
Hollybrook Junior SchoolB26%66%
Banister Primary SchoolB34%65%
Tanners Brook Primary SchoolB36%65%
St Mark's Church of England SchoolB−47%64%
Ludlow Junior SchoolB−40%64%
Newlands Primary SchoolB−61%63%
Swaythling Primary SchoolB−40%62%
Mansbridge Primary SchoolB−51%61%
Redbridge Primary SchoolB−65%61%
Freemantle Church of England Community AcademyB−33%61%
Kanes Hill Primary SchoolC+55%59%
Foundry Lane Primary SchoolC+25%59%
St Denys Primary SchoolC37%57%
Shirley Junior SchoolC20%57%
St Mary's Church of England Primary School & NurseryC45%56%
Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery SchoolC29%55%
Oakwood Primary SchoolC27%55%
Beechwood Junior SchoolC31%55%
Weston Park Primary SchoolC61%54%
Sholing Junior SchoolC−26%53%
Bevois Town Primary SchoolC−42%52%
Moorlands Primary SchoolC−42%52%
Harefield Primary SchoolC−43%52%
Townhill Junior SchoolC−46%51%
Bassett Green Primary SchoolC−44%51%
St John's Primary and Nursery SchoolC−40%50%
Wordsworth Primary and Nursery SchoolC−38%49%
St Monica Primary SchoolD34%47%
Mount Pleasant JuniorsD46%45%
Bitterne Church of England Primary SchoolD28%41%
Valentine Primary School & NurseryD−50%37%
Shirley Warren Primary & Nursery SchoolD−37%30%
Hightown Primary SchoolD−70%28%
Thornhill Primary SchoolD−66%17%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

414 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
24.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.7%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
37.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
25.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 54%Boys 46%
Its letter

Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths ABetter than 85% 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.

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, May 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools

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

Home prices in SO16 9, the school’s postcode sector

Southampton property prices →
£245,000
median sale, 296 sales in 36 months · Southampton £260,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025SO16 9Southampton
SO16 9Southampton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£346K
Semi-detached
£273K
Terraced
£250K
Flat
£140K
SO16 9Southampton

Homes in SO16 9 sell for a little under Southampton’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

18 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−A−D−D−B−C+D−AB−AC−DC−BB−CAHoly Family Catholic Primar…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Southampton, SO16 9LP

Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools: common questions

Is Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 85% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 76% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, May 2025.

How hard is it to get into Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools?

For September 2026, 60 families put Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools first and 55 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.

What is Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (May 2025).

How much do houses cost near Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools?

Homes in its postcode sector, SO16 9, sold for a median £245,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (296 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; Southampton’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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