The School Record

Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School

Primary school · Kingston upon Thames

Chestnut Grove, New Malden, KT3 3JU

This school became an academy on 1 January 2026. Before that it was a voluntary aided school, under its earlier school number, URN 102594.

About the school

Type of school
Academy
Academy trust
Christ the Redeemer Catholic Education Trust
Became an academy
1 January 2026. Before that it was a voluntary aided school, under its earlier school number, URN 102594.
Ages
3 to 11
Boys or girls
Boys and girls
Religious character
Roman Catholic, Archdiocese of Southwark
Nursery classes
Yes
Website
https://www.corpuschristikingston.co.uk
Telephone
020 8942 2645
School number (URN)
149922

Other schools run by Christ the Redeemer Catholic Education Trust

Christ the Redeemer Catholic Education Trust runs 6 other schools with a page here.

From Get Information about Schools, retrieved 2 September 2026. Schools update their own entries, so these can be out of date.

Children in each year group

As counted on one day in January 2026, the most recent school census. These are children, not places.

Children in each year group at Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School

Nursery 1 5, Nursery 2 17, Reception 52, Y1 54, Y2 57, Y3 39, Y4 60, Y5 61, Y6 605Nursery 117Nursery 252Reception54Y157Y239Y360Y461Y560Y6
Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026.
Year groupChildren
Nursery 1 5
Nursery 2 17
Reception 52
Year 1 54
Year 2 57
Year 3 39
Year 4 60
Year 5 61
Year 6 60

This is not a list of spare places. Places per year group are not published, and the count is from January. Children join and leave all year, so a year group that looked two under in January can be full by March.

If you are moving into the area and need a place during the school year, ask Kingston upon Thames. Councils handle applications made during the school year, including for schools that set their own admission rules. They hold the up-to-date position, which this page does not.

Who decides who gets a place

This school sets its own admission rules, through its academy trust, rather than Kingston upon Thames setting them.

Look on the school's own website for its admission arrangements. An admission authority has to agree its rules every year and publish them. The council still takes the application.

Taken from the kind of school this is, as recorded by the Department for Education. We do not hold this school's rules themselves: a summary of an admission rule is not the rule, and only the admission authority's own published arrangements are binding.

How to apply

Applications for a place starting in September 2027 close on 15 January 2027, the date the School Admissions Code sets for every council in England.

Councils send every offer for primary school places on the same day, 16 April 2027 or the next working day.

You apply through the council where you live, even for a school in another area. You do not apply to the school. Find your council's primary school application on GOV.UK.

To ask about visiting the school, or anything else about it, contact the school. Website: https://www.corpuschristikingston.co.uk. Telephone: 020 8942 2645.

Links and dates can change. Your council's own website has the final word. The dates are set nationally by the School Admissions Code 2021. GOV.UK link checked 23 September 2026. Contact details from Get Information about Schools.

How many families applied

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

In the 2026 intake, 34 families named Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 30 offers.

That is 1.13 first preferences per place offered, higher than 85% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 85% of comparable schools
Position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2026 intake.

First preferences for this school changed little, from 42 a year in 2022–2023 to 41 in 2025–2026. Across all 31 schools in Kingston upon Thames admitting at Reception, first preferences fell 14% over the same years, from 1,748 to 1,506.

Counts of families, not places.

Across Kingston upon Thames as a whole, 90.0% of families applying for a primary place for September 2026 were offered their first choice, and 98.8% were offered one of the three schools they named. That is a figure for the council, not for this school. How the 2026 round went in Kingston upon Thames.

Compared with its own past

Fewer families than its recent average put this school first.

In 2026, 34 families put this school first. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 44 a year.

In 2026, 123 families named this school somewhere on their list. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 133 a year.

In 2026, 85 in every 100 families who put this school first were offered a place here (29 of 34). In 2021 to 2025 it was every family, every year.

In 2026, 1 of the 30 offers went to a child living outside Kingston upon Thames. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 1 a year.

Some of the earlier years are from this school's record under its old school number.

Each figure is compared only with the same figure at this school. "About the same" means within 10 in every 100 of the average.

First preferences and offers at Reception

Families naming Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School first, against the offers it made, for every intake year held.

First preferences from 57 in 2014 to 34 in 2026; Offers made from 60 in 2014 to 30 in 2026204060801002014201620182020202220242026First preferences34Offers made30
Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Preferences count families. Offers count places given out on offer day. The vertical axis does not start at zero.

Figures before 2026 are from this school's earlier record, under its old school number (URN 102594), before it became an academy. The government's school register links the two, and they are the same school.

Applications and offers at Reception, 13 intake years
Intake 1st preferences1st choice All preferencesAny choice Offers madeOffers 1st prefs per placePer place
2026 34 123 30 1.13
2025
old school number		 48 129 53 0.91
2024
old school number		 46 133 58 0.79
2023
old school number		 53 141 60 0.88
2022
old school number		 30 120 39 0.77
2021
old school number		 44 142 56 0.79
2020
old school number		 58 154 60 0.97
2019
old school number		 65 178 60 1.08
2018
old school number		 45 132 60 0.75
2017
old school number		 80 186 60 1.33
2016
old school number		 57 158 60 0.95
2015
old school number		 48 147 60 0.80
2014
old school number		 57 154 60 0.95

“Offers made” is the number of offers on offer day, not the number of places the school has.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

Where families put this school on their list

In 2026 this school made 30 offers: 29 to families who had named it first and 1 to a family who named it second.

A school is not allowed to treat a family differently because of where it sat on their list. The School Admissions Code says an admission authority must not give extra priority to children whose parents rank preferred schools in a particular order.

The order is used at the end, by the council, and not by the school. Where more than one school could take a child, the council offers the one the family put highest.

Leaving the other boxes empty does not change how this school considers an application. If none of the schools a family names can offer a place, the council has to offer one at a school that has room, and that school may be further away.

Source: Department for Education school level applications and offers, and the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraphs 1.9 and 2.11.

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 graded inspection (previous framework), 22 October 2024

This inspection relates to a predecessor of the current school.

Overall effectiveness
Not judged
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Early years
Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

If you are refused a place

In 2026, families in Kingston upon Thames lodged 3 appeals about a primary school place.

2 of them were heard by a panel and 0 succeeded, which is about 0 in every 100 heard.

The other 1 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first.

Reception is an infant class, and the law caps an infant class at 30 children. A panel hearing an appeal about an infant class can only agree in three situations: the place was refused by mistake, the admission rules were not applied properly, or the decision was one no reasonable council would have made. It cannot simply decide that the child should have the place.

Of the 2 infant class appeals heard in Kingston upon Thames in 2026, 0 succeeded.

This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal.

These count appeals about every school in Kingston upon Thames, not this school. Nobody publishes appeal figures school by school.

Source: Department for Education, admission appeals in England, reporting year 2026.

Waiting lists

Being refused a place does not end the application. Every admission authority has to keep a waiting list until at least 31 December of the school year the child would have started, and some keep them for longer.

A waiting list is not a queue. The rules say a child cannot be given priority for having joined it earlier, or for having applied earlier. The list is put back in order against the school's own admission rules every time a child is added, so a place can move further away as well as nearer.

Councils differ on whether a refused child goes onto the list automatically. The council that sent the refusal is the only place that can say which it does.

From the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraph 2.15.

Children with special educational needs

In January 2026, 15 of the 405 children here had an education, health and care plan. That is 4 in every 100. That is close to the middle for schools in England, where the middle figure is 4 in every 100.

A further 27 were on SEN support, which is help arranged by the school without a plan. That is 7 in every 100, against a middle figure of 15 in every 100 across England.

A school named in a child's education, health and care plan has to admit that child. That duty holds even when the school is full, and it sits outside the rules that decide who gets a place when there are more children than places. Which school is named is decided with the council while the plan is being written, not through the normal application.

Source: Department for Education, special educational needs in England, January 2026 census.

Who goes to this school

In January 2026, 22 of the 405 children here were known to be eligible for free school meals. That is 5 in every 100.

Fewer children are eligible here than at half of primary schools in England, where the middle figure is 20 in every 100.

English was not the first language for 38 in every 100 children here. Across primary schools the middle figure is 10 in every 100.

This describes the children who go to this school. It is not a measure of the school. Most children go to a school near home, so it is mostly a fact about the streets around it.

This matters when reading results. Across the 15,153 schools we hold 2024 key stage 2 results for, the fifth with the fewest eligible children averaged 70% reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. The fifth with the most averaged 48%.

Those are averages of many schools all over the country. This school's own results are further down this page exactly as published.

Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026. Free school meal eligibility is counted for every pupil on roll.

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, and schools nearby

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

Using this information

This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything. We collect these figures from official publications and check them, but mistakes can get through. If you find one, tell us.

Figures current as of 14 September 2026.

This page was updated on 5 November 2026. "Retrieved" is the date of our copy of each source, not the year its figures describe. How we compare schools.