St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School admissions: how far away places were offered

Reception offers at St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, year by year

• “No cut-off” means every applicant was offered a place at the school or at a school they ranked higher, so places never ran out on distance.
• The number of Reception places changed from 45 to 30 in 2026, so earlier years are less comparable.

Things to know before you apply for September 2027

• There are 45 Reception places for September 2027, compared with 30 in 2026, so past cut-offs may not repeat.

Ofsted inspection

At its graded inspection on 12 November 2024, Ofsted gave St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School no overall grade (it stopped giving one in September 2024).

• This inspection was under Ofsted’s previous framework. Since 10 November 2025 Ofsted publishes report cards instead, and says the new grades can’t be compared with the old ones. How Ofsted grades schools
• From Ofsted’s data as at 30 September 2026. An inspection after that date may not be shown yet: the full report on Ofsted’s website is always the latest.

Read the full report on Ofsted’s website Source: Management information - state-funded schools - latest inspections as at 30 Sep 2026 (Ofsted, published 16 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Admission criteria at St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School

If more children apply than there are places, the 2026 rules offer places in this order. In 2026, the last places went to children in group 9.

1. Baptised Catholic looked-after children, looked-after children in Catholic families, and previously looked-after Catholic children.
2. Baptised Catholic children of committed practising Catholic parents living in the parishes of St Mary's, Clapham; St Vincent de Paul, Clapham Junction; or St Francis de Sales, Larkhall Lane.
3. Other baptised Catholic children of committed practising Catholic parents with a brother or sister at the school, or baptised Catholic children of staff with two years' service.
4. Baptised Catholic children of committed practising Catholic parents living in other Catholic parishes.
5. Other looked-after and previously looked-after children.
6. Children of catechumens, or baptised members of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
7. Children of families in other Christian denominations in Churches Together in England who support the school's aims.
8. Children of other faiths whose parents support the school's ethos.
9. Any other children, by the safest, shortest walking route from home to the school's main pupil gate (the council's mapping system). Lambeth's 2026 offer figures label the distance "straight line". We can't measure walking routes, so a year whose places ran out by distance isn't judged.

Where a year’s rules are missing from our data, we use the nearest year’s.

Read the official admission rulesStarting primary school in Lambeth 2026/27: primary school admission brochure (September 2026 intake). The school’s own published arrangements always take priority over our summary.