Catcliffe Primary School
General Information
- Address: Rotherham Road, Catcliffe, Rotherham, S60 5SW – View on map
- Phone: 01709828598
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Jessica Singh
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 18 families put it first for 29 places – 6 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 6 · 2025 10 · 2026 6
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 49
- % eligible for free school meals: 35.8%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (similar to the Rotherham average)
- English as an additional language: 11% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.3% a year (Rotherham 15%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 57% moved to another school, 43% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Rotherham: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 7 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 7 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Rotherham, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 5.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 11.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 40.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 8.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 41 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 55% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points below the Rotherham average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 54% against an expected 57%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 54%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 65% · Writing 60% · Maths 70% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 65%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 101
- Based on: 20 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 55th of 84 junior and primary schools in the area
- =52Maltby Lilly Hall Academy57%
- #54Monkwood Primary School56%
- #55Catcliffe Primary School55%
- #56Rawmarsh Sandhill Primary School54%
- =57Kilnhurst St Thomas' CofE Primary Academy53%
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17th of 62 primary schools in Rotherham for Ofsted rating
- #15Broom Valley Community SchoolGood
- #16Canklow Woods Primary SchoolGood
- #17Catcliffe Primary SchoolGood
- #18East Dene PrimaryGood
- #19Eastwood Village Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,822 (2024-25)
38th of 77 primary schools in Rotherham for spending per pupil
- #36Swallownest Primary School£6,924
- #37Our Lady and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School£6,865
- #38Catcliffe Primary School£6,822
- #39Broom Valley Community School£6,788
- #40Thrybergh Fullerton Church of England Primary Academy£6,756
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