Graded inspection · Dec 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in County Durham
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry40 applications · 21 places offered · 21 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.9; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2025 1.7; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2024 1.6; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2023 1.9; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2022 1.8; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2021 2.0; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2020 1.8; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2019 2.3; County Durham median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2018 1.7; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2017 2.8; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2016 2.2; County Durham median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2015 1.3; County Durham median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2014 2.2; County Durham median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- County Durham median
Dashed bars: as St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School (URN 114244), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 21 | 40 | 1.9 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 25 | 43 | 1.7 | 25 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 28 | 45 | 1.6 | 28 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 30 | 56 | 1.9 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2022 | 24 | 44 | 1.8 | 25 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2021 * | 27 | 53 | 2.0 | 27 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 26 | 47 | 1.8 | 26 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 29 | 67 | 2.3 | 41 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2018 * | 29 | 50 | 1.7 | 29 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 85 | 2.8 | 50 | 1.67 |
| Sep 2016 * | 29 | 63 | 2.2 | 40 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 40 | 1.3 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2014 * | 29 | 65 | 2.2 | 39 | 1.34 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 81% · Writing 74% · Maths 74% → all three 59% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- County Durham median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 59% | 4% | 105 | 103 |
| 2023/24 | 48% | 10% | 106 | 100 |
| 2022/23 | 73% | 7% | 107 | 104 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Benet's Catholic Primary School, OustonThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 59%met the SATs standard
- 0.3 km · County Durham20261.5applications per place 54%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · County DurhamNot yet inspected1.9applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · GatesheadRemains Good20241.3applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 2.1 km · GatesheadGraded · no overall grade202576%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · County DurhamGood20241.5applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · GatesheadRemains Good20232.4applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 2.3 km · County Durham20251.6applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 2.4 km · GatesheadStandards maintained20242.7applications per place
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 148205 · 840/3346
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 217 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 March 2021
- Replaced
- St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School (URN 114244)
- Address
- St Benet's Way, Ouston, Chester le Street, DH2 1QX
- Local authority
- County Durham
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources