The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School

URN 138288 · Primary · Academy converter · Hertfordshire

Horseshoe Lane, Watford, WD25 7HP

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 43 families named St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 30 offers.

That is 1.43 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 97% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 97% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.0 in 2021–2022 and 1.22 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 43 112 30 1.43
2024 23 71 23 1.00
2023 35 111 30 1.17
2022 34 108 30 1.13
2021 36 116 42 0.86
2020 38 100 39 0.97
2019 41 124 30 1.37
2018 38 119 30 1.27
2017 40 120 30 1.33
2016 36 111 30 1.20
2015 51 163 30 1.70
2014 33 128 48 0.69

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 27 September 2023

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 71.0% 3.0% 106.0 105.0
2023/24 68.0% 12.0% 107.0 106.0
2022/23 67.0% 15.0% 107.0 105.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 12.6 10.0 2.0 0.6 20.6%
2023/24 12.4 9.6 0.0 2.8 22.6%
2022/23 12.6 10.6 1.0 1.0 15.9%
2021/22 10.3 5.3 3.0 2.0 48.5%
2020/21 11.3 9.3 1.0 1.0 17.7%
2019/20 11.1 9.1 2.0 0.0 18.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.