St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Waltham Forest, E4 7BJ · Waltham Forest local authority
Waltham Forest’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England
What stands out about St Mary's Catholic Primary School
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 87% of England’s primary schools
- 77% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15 points above England’s schools
- 4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, November 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (25 of 25)
- Homes in its postcode sector (E4 7) sold for a median £560,000; Waltham Forest’s is £530,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 77%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 87% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Waltham Forest avg 72%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, 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 Mary's Catholic Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (13), 2020 (11), 2021 (13), 2022 (14), 2023 (14), 2024 (3), 2025 (6). 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 Waltham Forest council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Waltham Forest and Waltham Forest, side by side
2023–2025All 50 graded primaries in Waltham Forest. 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. Waltham Forest’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yardley Primary School | A+ | 18% | 95% |
| Riverley Primary School | A+ | 23% | 93% |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | A+ | 13% | 93% |
| Willow Brook Primary School Academy | A+ | 21% | 90% |
| St Saviour's Church of England Primary School | A+ | 12% | 89% |
| Woodford Green Primary School | A+ | 21% | 88% |
| Ainslie Wood Primary School | A+ | 10% | 87% |
| Roger Ascham Primary School | A+ | 28% | 86% |
| South Grove Primary School | A+ | 30% | 85% |
| Barclay Primary School | A+ | 27% | 83% |
| Selwyn Primary School | A+ | 15% | 83% |
| Davies Lane Primary School | A+ | 19% | 83% |
| The Winns Primary School | A | 16% | 80% |
| Thomas Gamuel Primary School | A | 31% | 80% |
| Walthamstow Primary Academy | A | 49% | 80% |
| Coppermill Primary School | A | 14% | 79% |
| Sybourn Primary School | A | 31% | 78% |
| Thorpe Hall Primary School | A | 27% | 77% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | A | 4% | 77% |
| Hillyfield Primary Academy | A | 16% | 76% |
| Newport School | A− | 16% | 75% |
| Stoneydown Park School | A− | 13% | 75% |
| Lime Academy Larkswood | A− | 28% | 74% |
| Chase Lane Primary School | A− | 25% | 72% |
| Greenleaf Primary School | A− | 20% | 72% |
| Oakhill Primary School | A− | 25% | 72% |
| Whitehall Primary School | A− | 21% | 71% |
| Mayville Academy | A− | 36% | 71% |
| The Jenny Hammond Primary School | B+ | 21% | 70% |
| Dawlish Primary School | B+ | 32% | 69% |
| Whittingham Primary Academy | B+ | 34% | 69% |
| Henry Maynard Primary School | B+ | 14% | 68% |
| Gwyn Jones Primary School | B+ | 24% | 68% |
| Edinburgh Primary School | B | 38% | 67% |
| Handsworth Primary School | B | 10% | 67% |
| Parkside Primary School | B | 23% | 66% |
| The Woodside Primary Academy | B | 33% | 65% |
| Downsell Primary School | B− | 33% | 64% |
| George Tomlinson Primary School | B− | 14% | 63% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Junior School | B− | 28% | 63% |
| Chapel End Junior Academy | B− | 36% | 63% |
| Longshaw Primary Academy | B− | 38% | 63% |
| Buxton School | B− | 42% | 62% |
| Chingford CofE Primary School | C+ | 13% | 60% |
| Salisbury Manor Primary School | C | 40% | 57% |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | C | 29% | 56% |
| Barn Croft Primary School | C− | 17% | 52% |
| George Mitchell School | C− | 38% | 52% |
| Mission Grove Primary School | D | 26% | 47% |
| Emmanuel Community School | D− | 29% | 37% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025209 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 Mary'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: Good, November 2023.
Living near St Mary's Catholic Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in E4 7, the school’s postcode sector
Waltham Forest property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in E4 7 sell for a little over Waltham Forest’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
16 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Waltham Forest, E4 7BJ
St Mary's Catholic Primary School: common questions
Is St Mary's Catholic Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 87% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 77% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, November 2023.
How hard is it to get into St Mary's Catholic Primary School?
For September 2026, 25 families put St Mary's Catholic Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 29 places were offered in all.
What is St Mary's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2023).
How much do houses cost near St Mary's Catholic Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, E4 7, sold for a median £560,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (394 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; Waltham Forest’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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