St Mary's CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Shaw Lane, Albrighton, Wolverhampton, WV7 3DS – View on map
- Phone: 01902372885
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Nathalie Milhavy-Jones
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 20 families put it first for 23 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 5 of the 23 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 7 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 24
- % eligible for free school meals: 12.3%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the Shropshire average)
- English as an additional language: 9% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 21.5% a year (Shropshire 14%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 29% moved to another school, 71% 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 Shropshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (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 Shropshire, 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: 4.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 5.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 11.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 73% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 14 percentage points above the Shropshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 70% against an expected 70%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 70%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 87% · Writing 77% · Maths 80% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 77%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 107
- Based on: 30 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: 18th of 96 junior and primary schools in the area
- =13Trinity CofE Primary School75%
- #17St Laurence CofE Primary School74%
- #18St Mary's CofE Primary School73%
- =19Shifnal Primary School72%
- =19St Andrew's CofE Primary School72%
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63rd of 86 primary schools in Shropshire for Ofsted rating
- #61St Lawrence CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #62St Lucia's CofE Primary School & NurseryGood
- #63St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #64St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #65St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,384 (2024-25)
74th of 112 primary schools in Shropshire for spending per pupil
- #72The Meadows Primary School£6,418
- #73St Giles CofE Primary School£6,403
- #74St Mary's CofE Primary School£6,384
- #75Weston Rhyn Primary School£6,381
- #76Bishops Castle Primary School£6,316
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