St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Romford

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades St Patrick's Catholic Primary School on 7 areas: 1 strong standard and 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have ensured a well-designed personal development programme helps pupils understand important concepts."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Overall, pupils learn the curriculum well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders manage and analyse pupils' attendance effectively."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The curriculum is suitably broad and ambitious."

Early years - Expected standard. "The early years curriculum is well designed, with a robust focus on communication and language and early mathematics."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have worked productively with external agencies to develop a tiered approach of support across the school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders at all levels have high expectations and understand the school well."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that early years activities are consistently ambitious and develop children's knowledge and vocabulary more effectively through carefully chosen, purposeful learning opportunities"; "Leaders should ensure that all staff use the school's teaching and learning principles effectively so that the curriculum is consistently taught well across all subjects and year groups"; "Leaders should ensure that the assess, plan, do, review model is used consistently, so that the school's internal resource provision is adapted promptly and effectively to meet pupils' needs".

In its own words: "It is with great joy that I welcome you to St Patrick’s. We are a vibrant, caring, and faith-filled community, where every child is valued, encouraged, and inspired to reach their full potential. At the heart of our school are our core values - Happiness, Love, Respect, Dedication, Faith, and Compassion - which guide everything we do."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, netball, rugby, hockey, tennis, gymnastics, badminton and Lego.

Coming up: an open day on Saturday 14 November 2026, an open day on Tuesday 8 December 2026 and an open day on Thursday 7 January 2027. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2025, 89% of Year 6 pupils at St Patrick's Catholic Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 80% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 78% in Havering and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 84% in reading and 69% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 23 families put St Patrick's Catholic Primary School as their first choice and 75 named it as one of their preferences, for 29 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to St Patrick's Catholic Primary School are Crownfield Junior School (0.3 miles, Good, 64% reading, 64% maths); Crownfield Infant School (0.3 miles, Good); Clockhouse Primary School (0.5 miles, Outstanding, 72% reading, 74% maths); and Parklands Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 78% reading, 79% maths).

St Patrick's Catholic Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

16.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 34.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (34%), Black (19%) and Asian (13%).

In 2026, 40 pupils (10.1%) received SEN support and 20 (5.1%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest railway station is Romford Station, about 1.8 miles away in a straight line.

14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Collier Row Road, 210 metres away.

In 2024/25, St Patrick's Catholic Primary School issued 3 suspensions, 0.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The secondary schools closest to St Patrick's Catholic Primary School are Bower Park Academy (1.1 miles) and Marshalls Park Academy (1.2 miles).