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Academy converter · 660 pupils
74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2
Voluntary aided school
St Bede's Catholic High School
- Pupils on roll
- 709of 689 places
- Free school meals
- 7.1%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 141
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 12 November 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
St Bede's Catholic High School has no sixth form. Of the 138 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 51% moved to a sixth form college, 31% to a further education college and 9% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 51% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 9% of leavers started one, roughly three times the England figure of 3%.
Media Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 26% of the year group took it, against 4% of pupils across England.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Lancashire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 138 | 13,296 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 98% | 90% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 85% | 81% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 1% | 12% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 51% | 20% | 13% |
| — further education college | 31% | 48% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 9% | 5% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 2% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 55.0 | 45.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 65% | 44% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 85% | 64% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 19% | 34% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.51 | 3.95 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 6% | 26% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 34.3 | 32.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 56.2 | 49.3 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 3% | 12% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 141 | 100% | 89% | 13% | 20% | 83% |
| Mathematics | 141 | 100% | 88% | 28% | 22% | 87% |
| English Literature | 140 | 99% | 86% | 27% | 21% | 85% |
| Religious Studies | 139 | 99% | 31% | 45% | 32% | 92% |
| Combined Science | 104 | 74% | 65% | 18% | 9% | 67% |
| Physical Education | 67 | 48% | 11% | 21% | 24% | 82% |
| Geography | 64 | 45% | 41% | 38% | 25% | 83% |
| History | 48 | 34% | 41% | 33% | 26% | 79% |
| French | 40 | 28% | 18% | 35% | 29% | 83% |
| Physics | 37 | 26% | 23% | 30% | 46% | 92% |
| Chemistry | 37 | 26% | 23% | 30% | 47% | 95% |
| Biology | 37 | 26% | 23% | 35% | 45% | 95% |
| Media Studies | 36 | 26% | 4% | 28% | 20% | 86% |
| Art and Design | 35 | 25% | 7% | 60% | 24% | 100% |
| Design and Technology | 27 | 19% | 11% | 15% | 23% | 74% |
| Photography | 20 | 14% | 6% | 15% | 19% | 90% |
| Music | 16 | 11% | 5% | 63% | 33% | 100% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 12 | 9% | 8% | 17% | 21% | 75% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 5% | 13% | 14% | 30% | 57% |
| Drama | 6 | 4% | 7% | 100% | 27% | 100% |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
Where St Bede's Catholic High School is
Other secondary schools in Lancashire are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Lancashire’s allocation statistics.
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All Hallows Catholic High School
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.