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St Joseph's Catholic Infants School

PrimaryAges 3–7Voluntary aidedRoman Catholic

Southwark, SE5 0TS · Southwark local authority

Southwark’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England

Getting in
26/26
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
147 pupils
70% of its 210 places
Free school meals
32%
32 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Joseph's Catholic Infants School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 147 pupils for 210 places
  • Ofsted: Good, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (26 of 26)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SE5 0) sold for a median £449,500; Southwark’s is £545,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Joseph's Catholic Infants School?

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

26
families put it first for September 2026
27
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (1), 2023 (1). 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 Southwark council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Southwark, September 2026

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

2.03 per place
49% got their first choice
1.72 per place
56% got their first choice
1.64 per place
60% got their first choice
1.59 per place
59% got their first choice
1.42 per place
60% got their first choice
1.37 per place
66% got their first choice
1.33 per place
65% got their first choice
1.32 per place
71% got their first choice
1.19 per place
80% got their first choice
St Joseph's Catholic Infants
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

144 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
19.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
54.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
26.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 56%Boys 44%
Its letter

No letter for St Joseph's Catholic Infants School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, December 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Joseph's Catholic Infants School

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

Home prices in SE5 0, the school’s postcode sector

Southwark property prices →
£449,500
median sale, 221 sales in 36 months · Southwark £545,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025SE5 0Southwark
SE5 0Southwark

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£863K
Flat
£409K
SE5 0Southwark

Homes in SE5 0 sell for well under Southwark’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

76 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBA+B−A+CAD−BABB+BB−B+B−C−C+A+CCC−BC+ACC+B+BC+C−BAC−A+B+AC+CCC−BA−B+A−DA−ACB+C−B−DB−BB+B+AAA−D−AA−A−C+DA−CB−B+A+BCC+C−A+B+St Joseph's Catholic Infant…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Southwark, SE5 0TS

St Joseph's Catholic Infants School: common questions

How hard is it to get into St Joseph's Catholic Infants School?

For September 2026, 26 families put St Joseph's Catholic Infants School first and all of them were offered a place; 27 places were offered in all.

What is St Joseph's Catholic Infants School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (December 2023).

How much do houses cost near St Joseph's Catholic Infants School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SE5 0, sold for a median £449,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (221 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; Southwark’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.