Altrincham College
Academy converter · sixth form · 973 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.5
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St Antony's Roman Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 688of 650 places
- Free school meals
- 32.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 134
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 5 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: St Antony's Catholic College (URN 106372, until 30 June 2020).
What the data says
St Antony's Roman Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy has no sixth form. Of the 103 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 29% moved to a sixth form college, 45% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 41% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 42.4 against 46.1 across England and 57.9 in Trafford, with 34% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and 6% went into work, against 3% and 3% 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 Trafford and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Trafford | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 103 | 3,338 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 86% | 95% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 81% | 92% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 5% | 42% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 29% | 20% | 13% |
| — further education college | 45% | 27% | 37% |
| — other education | 2% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| Employment | 6% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 6% | 3% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 8% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Trafford | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 42.4 | 57.9 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 34% | 64% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 53% | 79% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 8% | 50% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.57 | 5.24 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 35% | 19% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 35.7 | 40.0 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 46.0 | 62.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 5% | 18% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 135 | 100% | 88% | 12% | 22% | 57% |
| English Language | 135 | 100% | 89% | 10% | 20% | 64% |
| English Literature | 131 | 98% | 86% | 10% | 21% | 56% |
| Religious Studies | 131 | 98% | 31% | 12% | 32% | 56% |
| Combined Science | 111 | 83% | 65% | 7% | 9% | 53% |
| History | 90 | 67% | 41% | 30% | 26% | 58% |
| Geography | 60 | 45% | 41% | 17% | 25% | 57% |
| Art and Design | 55 | 41% | 7% | 11% | 24% | 89% |
| Business Studies | 50 | 37% | 18% | 16% | 20% | 58% |
| Biology | 21 | 16% | 23% | 19% | 45% | 90% |
| Physics | 21 | 16% | 23% | 14% | 46% | 81% |
| Chemistry | 21 | 16% | 23% | 14% | 47% | 95% |
| Computer Science | 19 | 14% | 13% | 5% | 30% | 42% |
| Physical Education | 16 | 12% | 11% | 0% | 24% | 94% |
| French | 8 | 6% | 18% | 50% | 29% | 75% |
| Music | 7 | 5% | 5% | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| Arabic | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Spanish | 1 | 1% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports / Movement Science | 37 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 17 | — | — |
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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.