Primary
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Charles Street, Wakefield, WF1 4PE
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 255 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.0
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Religious character
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Diocese
- Diocese of Leeds (ce)
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 10.9
- All staff (FTE)
- 26.3
- Pupils per adult
- 8.7
- Pupils
- 228
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2023
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
57%
8 points below the Wakefield average (65% across 105 schools)
103.0
1.8 below the Wakefield average (104.8 across 105 schools)
68th of 105 by our score, among the primary schools in Wakefield we can score - 124 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 102 |
| Average reading score | 103 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 57% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 34% |
| 23/24 | 43% |
| 24/25 | 57% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 101.0 |
| 23/24 | 99.0 |
| 24/25 | 103.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 101.0 |
| 23/24 | 100.0 |
| 24/25 | 102.0 |
Charles Street, Wakefield, WF1 4PE
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Wakefield admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Emma Brown
- Address
- Charles Street, Wakefield, WF1 4PE
- Telephone
- 01924303625
Other primary schools nearby
- Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill5.9/10
- St Austin's Catholic Primary School5.6/10
- Outwood Primary Academy Park Hill6.3/10
- Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) School6.1/10
- Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication Resource6.2/10
- Wakefield Lawefield Primary School5.7/10