St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Dudley, DY2 7PW · Dudley local authority
Dudley’s School Grade C− better than 23% of towns in England
What stands out about St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
- Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 98% of England’s primary schools
- 89% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 27 points above England’s schools
- Over capacity: 245 pupils for 210 places
- Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025 (shown, not graded)
- 90% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (28 of 31)
- Homes in its postcode sector (DY2 7) sold for a median £180,500; Dudley’s is £195,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 89%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 98% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Dudley avg 60%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 112, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 11 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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 Joseph'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 (16), 2020 (23), 2021 (35), 2022 (23), 2023 (27), 2024 (19), 2025 (16), 2026 (3). 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. St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Dudley 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
Dudley and Dudley, side by side
2023–2025All 75 graded primaries in Dudley. 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. Dudley’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 26% | 89% |
| Pedmore CE Primary School | A+ | 7% | 83% |
| Blowers Green Primary School | A | 41% | 82% |
| Our Lady and St Kenelm RC School | A | 12% | 81% |
| St Chad's Catholic Primary School | A | 17% | 81% |
| Manor Way Primary Academy | A | 9% | 79% |
| Oldswinford C of E Primary School | A | 8% | 76% |
| Lutley Primary School | A− | 10% | 75% |
| Cradley CofE Primary School | A− | 21% | 74% |
| Bramford Primary School | A− | 21% | 73% |
| Brockmoor Primary School | A− | 46% | 72% |
| The Ridge Primary School | A− | 10% | 72% |
| Blanford Mere Primary School | A− | 9% | 71% |
| Church of the Ascension CofE Primary School | A− | 5% | 71% |
| Amblecote Primary School | B+ | 22% | 70% |
| Straits Primary School | B+ | 7% | 70% |
| Lapal Primary School | B+ | 8% | 69% |
| Newfield Park Primary Academy | B+ | 10% | 69% |
| Cotwall End Primary School | B | 8% | 67% |
| St Joseph's RC Primary School | B | 6% | 67% |
| Maidensbridge Primary School | B | 4% | 66% |
| Glynne Primary School | B | 6% | 66% |
| St James's CofE Primary School | B | 16% | 66% |
| Tenterfields Primary Academy | B | 16% | 66% |
| Howley Grange Primary School | B | 14% | 65% |
| Ham Dingle Primary Academy | B | 20% | 65% |
| Netherbrook Primary School | B | 37% | 65% |
| Olive Hill Primary Academy | B | 27% | 65% |
| Colley Lane Primary Academy | B− | 32% | 64% |
| Peters Hill Primary School | B− | 17% | 63% |
| Wollescote Primary School | B− | 36% | 63% |
| Brook Primary School | B− | 27% | 62% |
| Greenfield Primary School | B− | 12% | 62% |
| Wrens Nest Primary School | B− | 58% | 61% |
| Dawley Brook Primary School | C+ | 11% | 60% |
| Alder Coppice Primary School | C+ | 19% | 60% |
| Caslon Primary Community School | C+ | 40% | 59% |
| Hurst Green Primary School | C+ | 17% | 59% |
| Fairhaven Primary School | C+ | 25% | 59% |
| Crestwood Park Primary School | C+ | 26% | 58% |
| Roberts Primary School | C+ | 30% | 58% |
| Northfield Road Primary School | C+ | 36% | 58% |
| Withymoor Primary School | C+ | 17% | 58% |
| Dingle Community Primary School | C | 25% | 56% |
| Kates Hill Primary School | C | 45% | 56% |
| Queen Victoria Primary School | C | 37% | 56% |
| Mount Pleasant Primary School | C | 26% | 55% |
| St Margaret's At Hasbury CofE Primary School | C | 23% | 55% |
| Foxyards Primary School | C | 24% | 54% |
| Gig Mill Primary School | C | 20% | 54% |
| Rufford Primary School | C− | 42% | 53% |
| Brierley Hill Primary School | C− | 56% | 52% |
| Sledmere Primary School | C− | 54% | 52% |
| Huntingtree Primary School | C− | 35% | 52% |
| Quarry Bank Primary School | C− | 44% | 51% |
| Halesowen CofE Primary School | C− | 62% | 51% |
| Dudley Wood Primary School | C− | 30% | 51% |
| Christ Church CofE Primary School | C− | 31% | 51% |
| St Mark's CofE Primary School | C− | 42% | 50% |
| Bromley Hills Primary School | D | 26% | 47% |
| Hob Green Primary School | D | 42% | 47% |
| The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School | D | 47% | 46% |
| Beechwood Church of England Primary School | D | 52% | 45% |
| Hurst Hill Primary School | D | 30% | 45% |
| Priory Primary School | D | 47% | 45% |
| Wallbrook Primary Academy | D | 44% | 45% |
| St Mary's RC Primary School | D | 21% | 44% |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | D | 21% | 44% |
| Red Hall Primary School | D | 41% | 43% |
| Netherton CofE Primary School | D | 34% | 43% |
| Thorns Primary School | D | 47% | 42% |
| Woodside Primary School and Nursery | D | 39% | 40% |
| Ashwood Park Primary School | D− | 26% | 38% |
| Russells Hall Primary School | D− | 31% | 37% |
| Belle Vue Primary School | D− | 12% | 37% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025250 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 Joseph'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), January 2025.
Living near St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in DY2 7, the school’s postcode sector
Dudley property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in DY2 7 sell for a little under Dudley’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
25 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Dudley, DY2 7PW
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School: common questions
Is St Joseph's Catholic Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 98% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A+), with 89% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025.
How hard is it to get into St Joseph's Catholic Primary School?
For September 2026, 31 families put St Joseph's Catholic Primary School first and 28 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.
What is St Joseph's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (January 2025).
How much do houses cost near St Joseph's Catholic Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, DY2 7, sold for a median £180,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (122 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; Dudley’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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