St James's Catholic Primary School
Richmond upon Thames, TW2 5NP · Richmond upon Thames local authority
Richmond upon Thames’s School Grade A+ better than 98% of towns in England
What stands out about St James's Catholic Primary School
- Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 97% of England’s primary schools
- 86% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24 points above England’s schools
- 3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024 (shown, not graded)
- 90% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (84 of 93)
- Homes in its postcode sector (TW2 5) sold for a median £585,000; Richmond upon Thames’s is £715,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 86%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 97% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Richmond upon Thames avg 76%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 109, maths 108 (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 James's Catholic Primary School?
90% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (22), 2020 (14), 2021 (1), 2022 (10), 2025 (9), 2026 (9). 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 Richmond upon Thames council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
90% got their first choice
Richmond upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames, side by side
2023–2025All 40 graded primaries in Richmond upon Thames. 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. Richmond upon Thames’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnes Primary School | A+ | 2% | 94% |
| Deer Park School | A+ | 6% | 93% |
| St Richard Reynolds Catholic Primary School | A+ | 6% | 91% |
| Marshgate Primary School | A+ | 9% | 87% |
| Meadlands Primary School | A+ | 15% | 86% |
| St James's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 3% | 86% |
| St Mary's and St Peter's Church of England Primary School | A+ | 7% | 85% |
| Thomson House School | A+ | 10% | 85% |
| The King's Church of England Primary School | A+ | 9% | 84% |
| Collis Primary School | A+ | 8% | 83% |
| Sheen Mount Primary School | A | 3% | 82% |
| Chase Bridge Primary School | A | 13% | 82% |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School | A | 4% | 82% |
| East Sheen Primary School | A | 18% | 81% |
| St Stephen's C E Primary School | A | 7% | 81% |
| Archdeacon Cambridge's Church of England Primary School | A | 4% | 81% |
| Lowther Primary School | A | 26% | 80% |
| The Vineyard School | A | 5% | 80% |
| St Edmund's Catholic Primary School | A | 7% | 78% |
| St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School | A | 4% | 78% |
| St Osmund's Catholic Primary School | A | 6% | 78% |
| Hampton Junior School | A | 13% | 77% |
| The Russell Primary School | A | 17% | 76% |
| St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School | A | 23% | 76% |
| Orleans Primary School | A− | 7% | 74% |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | A− | 13% | 74% |
| Bishop Perrin Church of England Primary School | A− | 12% | 74% |
| Hampton Hill Junior School | A− | 17% | 72% |
| Trafalgar Junior School | A− | 20% | 72% |
| Kew Riverside Primary School | A− | 38% | 71% |
| St Mary's Hampton Church of England Primary | B+ | 21% | 68% |
| Heathfield Junior School | B | 40% | 67% |
| St John the Baptist Church of England Junior School | B | 15% | 67% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | B | 20% | 67% |
| Stanley Primary School | B | 34% | 66% |
| Twickenham Primary Academy | B− | 15% | 64% |
| St Richard's Church of England Primary School | B− | 44% | 63% |
| Buckingham Primary School | C | 41% | 56% |
| Nelson Primary School | C− | 22% | 52% |
| Darell Primary and Nursery School | C− | 32% | 49% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025665 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 James'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.
Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), October 2024.
Living near St James's Catholic Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in TW2 5, the school’s postcode sector
Richmond upon Thames property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in TW2 5 sell for well under Richmond upon Thames’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
32 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Richmond upon Thames, TW2 5NP
St James's Catholic Primary School: common questions
Is St James's Catholic Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 97% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A+), with 86% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024.
How hard is it to get into St James's Catholic Primary School?
For September 2026, 93 families put St James's Catholic Primary School first and 84 of them were offered a place; 90 places were offered in all.
What is St James's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (October 2024).
How much do houses cost near St James's Catholic Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, TW2 5, sold for a median £585,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (391 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; Richmond upon Thames’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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