St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy, Stoke-on-Trent

Ofsted's report card from its 14 July 2026 inspection grades St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Across the curriculum, pupils typically achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders analyse and track pupils' absence patterns carefully."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the quality of the curriculum and teaching."

Early years - Expected standard. "As soon as children join the nursery, staff provide intensive support."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders identify pupils' individual needs quickly, when they join the school and as their needs change."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate view of the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff help pupils become confident and kind citizens, who respect others' differences."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff implement the full curriculum consistently and effectively"; "Leaders should ensure that staff consistently identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge and skills so that these are closed as quickly as possible".

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils at St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 80% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 73% in Stoke-on-Trent and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 65% in reading and 58% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 32 families put St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy as their first choice and 40 named it as one of their preferences, for 30 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 2 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy are Kingsland CofE Academy (0.5 miles, Good, 68% reading, 68% maths); Eaton Park Academy (0.5 miles, Good, 77% reading, 80% maths); Maple Court Academy (0.8 miles, Good, 47% reading, 48% maths); and Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy (1 mile, Outstanding, 77% reading, 74% maths).

St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy's 2025 results were higher than all 4 of them.

St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy is one of 64 schools run by St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, an academy trust.

52.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 39% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (50%), Mixed (13%) and Black (8%).

The nearest railway station is Platform 1, about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Trowbridge Crescent (adjacent), 210 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy issued 6 suspensions, 2.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.