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St Edmund's Catholic Primary School

The Drive, Godalming, GU7 1PF

XAVIER CATHOLIC EDUCATION TRUST is the academy trust. Admissions rules still sit with the school and your local council.

Area judgements

At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedArea judgements
Attendance95.5%
Attainment83% met expected standard (KS2)
AdmissionsUsually oversubscribed
Pupils208

Ofsted inspection

Latest outcome

Area judgements

New inspection format: no single overall grade.

Monitoring visit confirmed the previous Good overall grade — see the full report for latest area judgements.

Inspection history

  1. Previous gradedGood
  2. Latest ungradedSchool remains Good

This page shows previous graded and latest ungraded outcomes when Ofsted publishes them in the national file. Full history stays on the Ofsted report.

View on Ofsted

School figures

Coloured bars compare this school with the average for other schools in GU7. Where we have them, council (Waverley) and England figures appear under FSM, SEN and attendance. FSM, SEN and EAL are context, not quality scores. For attendance, higher is usually better.

Pupils on roll
208
Free school meals
4.3%
8.5% below district average (12.8%)

Also: England 24.7%

SEN
15.6%
2.2% below district average (17.8%)

Also: England 18.2%

EAL
13.7%
0.5% above district average (13.2%)
Attendance
95.5%
0.2% above district average (95.3%)

Also: England 94.8%

Persistent absence
8.8%
Attainment
83% met expected standard (KS2)

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the GU7 average; the darker bar is this school.

Trends over time

Attendance

Autumn and spring term attendance from DfE pupil absence data (where published for this URN).

  • 2021/2295.5%
  • 2022/2395.1%
  • 2023/2495.6%
  • 2024/2595.8%

KS2 attainment

Share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (all pupils).

  • 2022/2380%
  • 2023/2481%
  • 2024/2583%

Admissions

Demand signal
Usually oversubscribed
Published capacity (GIAS)
210
Pupils on roll
208

Indicative signal from published roll versus GIAS capacity. Not applications versus offers, and not a guarantee of a place.

Published admission number (PAN) and applications versus offers are not in our national datasets yet. Use your council booklet.

Check your council admissions booklet via the Surrey page.

SEN support

SEN %
15.6%
On-site provision
None listed in GIAS

A higher SEN percentage can mean experience with support needs, or more demand on staff. Ask the SENCO what is available day to day.

Sources and freshness

  • School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
  • Pipeline last checked: Sept 2026.
  • Council and England attendance / FSM tables: 2024/25.
  • School figures from DfE / GIAS / Ofsted where published. District averages use other schools in this postcode district. Council and England figures use DfE local authority and national tables for the matching phase.
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