Rotherhithe Primary School
0.3 miles339 pupils · KS2 expected standard 77% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Southwark
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter · Ages 3 to 11 · Mixed · 213 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Academy converter (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Pupils
- 213 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 210
- Nursery classes
- Yes
- Headteacher
- Mrs Catherine McLoughlin
- Trust
- ST BENEDICT CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST
- Address
- Gomm Road, Lower Road, London, SE16 2TY
- Borough
- Southwark
- Telephone
- 02072374036
- DfE reference (URN)
- 151012
- Website
- stjosephsprimary.org.uk
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 2026-10-07 · last checked 9 October 2026
Key dates for 2027 entry
Reception (4+)
- Application deadlineFriday 15 January 2027Open
National closing date for Reception applications: Friday 15 January 2027. Apply through your home borough's coordinated scheme, not directly to the school.
Source: Your borough's admissions page · checked 9 Oct 2026
- National offer dayFriday 16 April 2027Upcoming
Primary National Offer Day: Friday 16 April 2027. Offers are released by your home borough.
Source: Your borough's admissions page · checked 9 Oct 2026
- Accept your offerDate not statedDate not stated
Accept the offer by the deadline given in your offer letter; your home borough sets the date.
Source: GOV.UK · checked 9 Oct 2026
Get a reminder before St Joseph's Catholic Primary School's deadlines
One email 14, 7 and 1 day before each dated deadline we hold. No account needed.
A status ("Closes in 12 days") is shown only for a closing date we have checked, worked out from today's date, 10 October 2026. Other dates are printed as the school published them, with its own wording beside them. Dates given only as "early January" are shown as approximate and never counted down. Always confirm with the school or council.
Admissions
You apply through the council where you live, not to the school, naming up to six schools in order on one form. Every applicant on time hears on the same national offer day. Schools with a religious character often ask for a supplementary information form as well, returned to the school by the same deadline.
34 first-preference applications and 90 applications naming it at any preference for 30 places offered (September 2026 entry, DfE)
| Entry | Places offered | First preferences | All preferences |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 30 | 34 | 90 |
These are counts of applications and offers on national offer day. They are not a chance of getting in: places are allocated by the school's published admissions criteria, such as siblings, distance or faith.
Source: Department for Education, Secondary and primary school applications and offers · entry years up to 2026/27 · last checked 9 October 2026
Southwark: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 84.3% of applicants were offered their first preference and 98% were offered one of their preferences (2,248 applications). These are borough-wide figures, not a forecast for any school or child.
Source: Department for Education, Secondary and primary schools applications and offers 2026 · entry years 2014/15 to 2026/27 (release published 2026-06-18) · last checked 9 October 2026
Inspection
Ofsted graded inspection, 12 March 2024: overall effectiveness at that inspection was Outstanding
(inspection of the predecessor school, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School)Ofsted stopped giving state schools a single overall grade in September 2024. This grade dates from the inspection shown; it is not a current rating.
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Early years provision
- Outstanding
Source: Ofsted, Management information - state-funded schools - latest inspections as at 31 August 2026 · latest inspections as at 2026-08-31 · last checked 9 October 2026
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 25.9% January 2026
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · school census
Attendance and staffing
- Pupils per teacher
- 19 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Pupil to teacher ratios - school level · 2025/26 (school workforce census, November 2025) · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 210
- Pupils on roll
- 197
Source: Department for Education, Capacity - school / Sixth form capacity - school · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · position at 1 May, 2024/25
Nearby schools
Schools covering the same ages within about a mile, by straight-line distance (not walking or travel time).
Southwark Park Primary School
0.3 miles386 pupils · KS2 expected standard 76% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Albion Primary School
0.3 miles401 pupils · KS2 expected standard 69% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Alfred Salter Primary School
0.5 miles403 pupils · KS2 expected standard 73% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
345 pupils · KS2 expected standard 69% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
240 pupils · KS2 expected standard 92% (2024/25)
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Compare with similar schools
Side-by-side comparisons with the nearest schools of the same type. Sourced facts only; no winner is declared.
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Rotherhithe Primary School0.3 miles apart
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Southwark Park Primary School0.3 miles apart
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Albion Primary School0.3 miles apart
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Alfred Salter Primary School0.5 miles apart