Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
Primary school · Academy sponsor led · ages 5 to 11 · Not applicable
Thorpe Road, Horden, Peterlee, SR8 4AB
- Pupils99
- Ages5 to 11
- Latest Ofsted12 Nov 2024
- FundingState-funded
Ofsted inspections
Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.
Graded inspection (no overall grade) · 12 Nov 2024
This inspection was of a predecessor school (Our Lady Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary), before it reopened under its current reference number. Ofsted says grades of a predecessor school can’t, in law, transfer to the new one.
Category of concern: Special measures. What this means.
No overall grade: from September 2024 to November 2025 Ofsted gave sub-grades only (recorded as “Not judged”).
- Quality of educationInadequate
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Leadership and managementInadequate
- Early years provisionInadequate
- Safeguarding is effectiveYes
Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools · report published 11 Feb 2025
Ungraded inspection · 28 Nov 2019
This inspection was of a predecessor school (Our Lady Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary), before it reopened under its current reference number. Ofsted says grades of a predecessor school can’t, in law, transfer to the new one.
Outcome: School remains Good. An ungraded inspection checks whether a school is still at the standard of its last graded inspection; it doesn’t give new grades.
Ungraded inspection · report published 15 Dec 2019
Read the full reports on Ofsted’s website (opens in a new tab) — they explain the reasons behind each grade.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.
Results
No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.
Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.
Pupils and attendance
- Pupils
- 99 (capacity 119)
49 girls, 50 boys - Eligible for free school meals
- 52.5% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)
Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.
About the school
- Type
- Academy sponsor led (Academies)
- Phase
- Primary
- Trust
- BISHOP CHADWICK CATHOLIC EDUCATION TRUST
- Sponsor
- Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust
- Boys, girls or mixed
- Not applicable
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Diocese
- Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Opened
- 1 January 2026
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Parliamentary constituency
- Easington
- URN
- 152108 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)
Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).
Admissions
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Apply for a primary place (GOV.UK)
How school admissions work: deadlines, oversubscription and appeals.