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Primary school in London, Waltham Forest

St Joseph's Catholic Junior School

150 Vicarage Road, Leyton, London, E10 5DX

Ofsted Good · 2023 Roman Catholic
School website 02085395971
Ofsted Good May 2023
Met the expected standard 71% in the upper half nationally
Pupils 107 59% full

Ofsted

Goodas at 5 May 2023

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 5 May 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Good
Last overall grade in this dataset
Good
Days since inspection
1,246 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths

71% England 60.7%

Reached the higher standard

5% England 8.1%

Average reading score

106 England 105.3

Average maths score

105 England 104.1

On the headline measure this school is in the upper half of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
107
Places
180
How full
59% full — 107 of 180 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
61 / 46
Overall absence
3%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
6%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
31%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
41%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
20%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
3

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
62

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
13
Busiest road nearby
A1006

10,313 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
8

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Leyton Midland Road Station

0.6 km away — railway station

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£477,500

postcode sector E10 5 · 386 sales

Typical range
£365,000 to £625,000

middle half of sales

Semi-detached
£637,500
Terraced
£655,000
Flat
£394,250

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
28%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
24%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
9%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
30%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
49%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
19%

England 62.7%

Social housing
67%

England 17%

Privately rented
13%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
9%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
16%

England 22.5%

No car
52%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Waltham Forest 020I and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 7–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
No
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Merryl D'Souza
Register status
Open
Local authority
Waltham Forest
Ward
Leyton
Constituency
Leyton and Wanstead
URN
103086

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

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Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
Ben Jonson Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 56% 3.4 mi
Manorfield Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 75% 3.5 mi
St Paul With St Luke CofE Primary FederationVoluntary aided school No overall grade 72% 3.5 mi
Stebon Primary SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 79% 3.6 mi
St Saviour's Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school No overall grade 62% 3.6 mi
Halley Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 52% 3.6 mi
Ravenscroft Primary SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 71% 3.7 mi
Cayley Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 82% 3.7 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 71%
Median of its 5 closest peers 52%
Waltham Forest average 69.1%
England average 60.7%

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
Alfred Lord Tennyson SchoolCommunity school Rushden No overall grade 48%
St Luke's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy.Academy converter Telford Good 2023 —
St Joseph's RC Infant SchoolVoluntary aided school London Good 2024 —
Lovers Lane Primary and Nursery SchoolAcademy sponsor led Newark Requires improvement 2023 —
Kingfisher CE AcademyFree schools Swindon Requires improvement 2024 —
St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy converter Cobham No overall grade 62%
Saffron Green Primary SchoolCommunity school Borehamwood No overall grade 21%
Darell Primary and Nursery SchoolCommunity school Richmond Good 2023 52%
St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Barnsley Good 2024 61%
Brownsover Community SchoolCommunity school Rugby Good 2024 —
Abbey CofE Infant SchoolVoluntary controlled school Nuneaton No overall grade —
Henry Hinde Infant SchoolAcademy converter Rugby Good 2023 —

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 103086; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 5 May 2023
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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