All Saints Catholic College
Voluntary aided school · 899 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.9
Academy sponsor led
Upper Batley High School
- Pupils on roll
- 784of 750 places
- Free school meals
- 29.6%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 150
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 12 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Upper Batley High School (URN 107767, until 8 September 2015).
What the data says
Upper Batley High School has no sixth form. Of the 150 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 24% moved to a sixth form college, 45% to a further education college and 3% started an apprenticeship.
Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 27% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 44.1 against 46.1 across England and 46.4 in Kirklees, with 42% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
As an 11–16 school, Upper Batley High School is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.
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 Kirklees and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Upper Batley High School | Kirklees | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 150 | 5,003 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 88% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 83% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 14% | 16% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 24% | 33% | 13% |
| — further education college | 45% | 35% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 1% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 3% | 5% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 9% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Upper Batley High School | Kirklees | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 44.1 | 46.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 42% | 47% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 67% | 66% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 48% | 38% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.05 | 4.06 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 26% | 31% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 36.2 | 35.6 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 46.9 | 51.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 59% | 22% | 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 | 150 | 100% | 89% | 5% | 20% | 59% |
| Mathematics | 150 | 100% | 88% | 15% | 22% | 79% |
| English Literature | 143 | 95% | 86% | 6% | 21% | 69% |
| Combined Science | 116 | 77% | 65% | 18% | 9% | 68% |
| Geography | 95 | 63% | 41% | 11% | 25% | 54% |
| Design and Technology | 59 | 39% | 11% | 8% | 23% | 63% |
| Business Studies | 58 | 39% | 18% | 3% | 20% | 45% |
| French | 56 | 37% | 18% | 9% | 29% | 46% |
| Photography | 40 | 27% | 6% | 0% | 19% | 57% |
| History | 36 | 24% | 41% | 8% | 26% | 47% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 20% | 23% | 77% | 47% | 97% |
| Biology | 30 | 20% | 23% | 63% | 45% | 97% |
| Physics | 30 | 20% | 23% | 60% | 46% | 97% |
| Computer Science | 24 | 16% | 13% | 4% | 30% | 42% |
| Urdu | 22 | 15% | 1% | 18% | 42% | 68% |
| Art and Design | 16 | 11% | 7% | 0% | 24% | 94% |
| Fine Art | 2 | 1% | 9% | — | 28% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Studies | 53 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 46 | — | — |
| Art and Design | 15 | — | — |
| Tourism | 12 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 2 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Kirklees
Batley Girls' High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,415 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.9
Batley Grammar School
Free schools · 980 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.5
BBG Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,049 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.8
Castle Hall Academy
Academy converter · 863 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.9
Colne Valley High School
Academy sponsor led · 1,360 pupils
76% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.4
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.