Joshua Mangas

St Luke's CofE First School

  • Primary
  • Academy sponsor led
  • Ages 4 to 9
  • Church of England

URN 150742 · Worcestershire · SHIRES MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

In Worcestershire

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

2 July 2024

Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement

Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Early years provision
Good
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 2

Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Attendance

Against Worcestershire and England, primary schools.

Overall absence

2024/25

4.3%

Worcestershire
5.1%
England
5.2%

0.9 percentage points lower than England.

Sessions missed for any reason, as a share of all possible sessions in the school year. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.

Persistent absence

2024/25

9.9%

Worcestershire
12.4%
England
13.0%

3.1 percentage points lower than England.

Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.

Severe absence

2024/25

0.0%

Worcestershire
0.8%
England
0.9%

0.9 percentage points lower than England.

Pupils who missed 50% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.

Teachers

Against Worcestershire and England, primary schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

24.2

Worcestershire
20.0
England
21.2

3.0 higher than England.

Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.

Teacher sickness absence

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Worcestershire
4.3 days
England
5.0 days

Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.

Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Pupils on roll
138
Capacity
150
Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Primary
Age range
4 to 9
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Trust
SHIRES MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Opened
1 February 2025
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Redditch
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 8 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Plymouth Road North, Southcrest, Redditch, Worcestershire, B97 4NU

Website: www.stlukesfirst.worcs.sch.uk/

Telephone: 01527541219

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Sources and corrections

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