Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 9 June 2026
Compared with the local authority and England
Results for 2025 were not published for this school. The Department for Education withholds figures when too few pupils took the tests, to protect their privacy.
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Chipping on 9 June 2026 using a report card, which grades each area separately and gives no overall grade. The school met Ofsted's safeguarding standards. It was graded Expected standard for inclusion, for leadership and governance and for attendance and behaviour; Needs attention for achievement, for curriculum and teaching, for personal development and wellbeing and for early years.
Apply through the council where you live by 15 January for a Reception place starting that September. Children start Reception in the September after their fourth birthday. You can usually list between 3 and 6 schools in order of preference, and offers are sent on 16 April, or the next working day. A place in its nursery class does not carry on into Reception, so you still need to apply. As a Roman Catholic school it may also ask for a supplementary form, and its admissions policy says whether it does.
No. Distance only counts when St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Chipping has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by its governing body, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. As a Roman Catholic school, it can give priority to children on grounds of faith. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Chipping had 46 pupils aged 3 to 11 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 70. It is a mixed school.