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St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11AcademyRoman Catholic

Sutton, SM3 9DL · Sutton local authority

Sutton’s School Grade A+ better than 97% of towns in England

Its letter
93%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
57/70
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
465 pupils
112% of its 417 places
Free school meals
4%
4 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School

  • Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 93% of England’s primary schools
  • 81% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19 points above England’s schools
  • Over capacity: 465 pupils for 417 places
  • 4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, November 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • 81% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (57 of 70)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SM3 9) sold for a median £550,000; Sutton’s is £455,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 81%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 93% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Sutton avg 71%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%St Cecilia's Catholic Primary 81%

Each subject, 2025

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

Reading94%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)84%
England’s schools 73%
Maths95%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling95%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three13%
England’s schools 8% · Sutton 18% · 2025

These results were published under the school’s predecessor (URN 102993), before it converted or merged. 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 Cecilia's Catholic Primary School?

81% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

70
families put it first for September 2026
60
places offered
81%
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 (15), 2020 (5), 2021 (2), 2022 (6), 2024 (9), 2025 (14), 2026 (13). 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. Sancta Familia Catholic Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Sutton council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Sutton, September 2026

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

1.56 per place
62% got their first choice
1.30 per place
77% got their first choice
1.28 per place
73% got their first choice
1.19 per place
81% got their first choice
St Cecilia's Catholic Primary
1.17 per place
81% got their first choice
1.13 per place
85% got their first choice
1.12 per place
85% got their first choice
1.10 per place
86% got their first choice
1.09 per place
89% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice

Sutton and Sutton, side by side

2023–2025

All 32 graded primaries in Sutton. 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. Sutton’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35%46%57%68%79%90%10%20%30%40%50%60%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →St Cecilia's Catholic
ABCDElsewhere in SuttonSt Cecilia's Catholic Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Westbourne Primary SchoolA+13%87%
St Elphege's RC Junior SchoolA+22%87%
Cheam Common Junior AcademyA+8%86%
Cheam Fields Primary AcademyA+6%86%
Manor Park Primary AcademyA+17%85%
Beddington Park AcademyA31%82%
Robin Hood Junior SchoolA20%81%
Cheam Park Farm Primary AcademyA6%81%
Brookfield Primary AcademyA14%81%
St Cecilia's Catholic Primary SchoolA4%81%
Barrow Hedges Primary SchoolA7%78%
St Mary's RC Junior SchoolA6%76%
Muschamp Primary School and Language Opportunity BaseA32%76%
Stanley Park Junior SchoolA−10%75%
All Saints Carshalton Church of England Primary SchoolA−6%75%
St Dunstan's Cheam CofE Primary SchoolA−11%73%
All Saints Benhilton CofE Primary SchoolA−12%71%
Harris Junior Academy CarshaltonA−20%71%
Holy Trinity CofE Junior SchoolB+23%70%
Abbey Primary SchoolB+22%69%
Hackbridge Primary SchoolB+22%68%
Dorchester Primary SchoolB+18%68%
Avenue Primary AcademyB+13%68%
Wood Field Primary SchoolB24%66%
High View Primary SchoolB−12%64%
Culvers House Primary SchoolB−28%64%
Bandon Hill Primary SchoolB−19%64%
Devonshire Primary SchoolC+27%60%
Rushy Meadow Primary AcademyC33%54%
Green Wrythe Primary SchoolC−40%52%
Tweeddale Primary SchoolD44%46%
Wallington Primary AcademyD−55%35%
Its letter

St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths ABetter than 93% 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.

Graded inspection: Outstanding, November 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School

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

Home prices in SM3 9, the school’s postcode sector

Sutton property prices →
£550,000
median sale, 403 sales in 36 months · Sutton £455,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025SM3 9Sutton
SM3 9Sutton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£576K
Terraced
£545K
Flat
£285K
SM3 9Sutton

Homes in SM3 9 sell for well over Sutton’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

26 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCCC+B+AA−A−A−A+A+AAA+B−A+AA−A+B−B−B+BA−ASt Cecilia's Catholic Prima…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Sutton, SM3 9DL

St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School: common questions

Is St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 93% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 81% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, November 2023.

How hard is it to get into St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School?

For September 2026, 70 families put St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School first and 57 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.

What is St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (November 2023).

How much do houses cost near St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SM3 9, sold for a median £550,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (403 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; Sutton’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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