St Anne's Catholic Primary School
General Information
- Address: Chace Avenue, Willenhall, Coventry, CV3 3AD – View on map
- Phone: 02476302882
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Rachael Batson
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 23 families put it first for 23 places – 10 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 11 · 2024 12 · 2025 8 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 86
- % eligible for free school meals: 36.6%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (similar to the Coventry average)
- English as an additional language: 47% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.6% a year (Coventry 15.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 42% moved to another school, 58% 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.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Coventry: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 7 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 8 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 4 (0.1 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 Coventry, 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: 12.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 25 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 9 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 48% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 12 percentage points below the Coventry average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 52% against an expected 61%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 52%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 72% · Writing 62% · Maths 69% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 79%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 29 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: joint 69th of 83 junior and primary schools in the area
- #68Moat House Primary School50%
- =69Henley Green Primary48%
- =69St Anne's Catholic Primary School48%
- =69Willenhall Community Primary School48%
- #72Spon Gate Primary School46%
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41st of 65 primary schools in Coventry for Ofsted rating
- #39Southfields Primary SchoolGood
- #40Spon Gate Primary SchoolGood
- #41St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #42St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #43St Christopher Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,899 (2024-25)
28th of 83 primary schools in Coventry for spending per pupil
- #26St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School£6,993
- #27Whitley Abbey Primary School£6,937
- #28St Anne's Catholic Primary School£6,899
- #29Joseph Cash Primary School£6,854
- #30Alderman's Green Primary School£6,824
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