St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy, Newport

Ofsted's report card from its 28 April 2026 inspection grades St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy on 7 areas: 6 strong standard and 1 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils achieve very well at this school."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Pupils' attendance is high."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "The school provides a well-organised and purposeful curriculum."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "The school is highly effective at identifying and meeting pupils' needs."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Committed, values-driven leadership has created an ambitious culture for learning across the school where pupils thrive academically, socially and emotionally."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "The school's personal development offer is comprehensive."

Early years - Expected standard. "The school's early years provision has recently expanded to offer nursery places."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders and staff should continue to focus on improving children's early handwriting by making sure that children are taught an efficient pencil grip and learn how to form letters and digits correctly".

From the headteacher's welcome: "I feel very proud and privileged to be Headteacher of this wonderful school. Located in a beautiful semi-rural environment on the fringes of Newport, we are so very lucky to have our stunning Forest School area in Chetwynd Deer Park."

The school runs a breakfast club and after-school care.

The school week is 32.5 hours a week.

St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy has no published results of its own yet. Before it took its current form in 2024, as St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School (URN 123552), 93% of its Year 6 pupils reached the expected standard in reading and 100% in maths in the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments.

For September 2026 entry, 22 families put St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy as their first choice and 38 named it as one of their preferences, for 23 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 Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy are Newport Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School (0.9 miles, Good, 78% reading, 64% maths); Newport Infant School and Nursery (1.1 miles, Good); Moorfield Primary School (1.1 miles, Outstanding, 83% reading, 81% maths); and St Peter's Church of England Controlled Primary School and Nursery (1.4 miles, Outstanding, 79% reading, 90% maths).

St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is one of 18 schools run by Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 56% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

10.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 18 pupils (10.2%) received SEN support and 3 (1.7%) 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.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy.

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Masons Place (on), 270 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 54 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Telford and Wrekin (139).

St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.

The secondary schools closest to St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy are Haberdashers' Adams (0.7 miles), The Burton Borough School (1.1 miles) and Newport Girls' High School Academy (1.1 miles).