St Catherine's Catholic School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 56 55.5 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 55.5 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 65.7% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 13.7% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.75 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	55.1[5]	58.6%[5]
2023/24	55.8[3]	63.4%[3]	+0.75[3]
2022/23	53.9[6]	53%[6]	+0.56[6]
2021/22	59.1[7]	67%[7]	+0.70[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 98% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 58% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 27% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 11% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 1% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	98%[9]	54%[9]	23%[9]	17%[9]		1%[9]
2020/21	99%[10]	63%[10]	23%[10]	11%[10]	0%[10]	2%[10]
2019/20	99%[11]	64%[11]	20%[11]	14%[11]	1%[11]	0%[11]
2018/19	100%[12]	52%[12]	29%[12]	13%[12]	1%[12]	1%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 14 Jun 2022[13]
Type: S5 Inspection[13]
Report published: 21 Sep 2022[13]
Personal development: Good[13]
Quality of education: Good[13]
Overall effectiveness: Good[13]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
8 Jan 2019[14]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14]	No overall grade[14]
Date not published[15]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15]	Good[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.2 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 454 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 158 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 208 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 0.8 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	407[16]	119[16]	204[16]	2.0[16]	0.6[16]
Entry Sept 2024	417[16]	153[16]	212[16]	2.0[16]	0.7[16]
Entry Sept 2023	406[16]	137[16]	207[16]	2.0[16]	0.7[16]
Entry Sept 2022	421[16]	139[16]	210[16]	2.0[16]	0.7[16]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy converter[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Girls[1]
Faith: Roman Catholic[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1050[1]
Trust: ST CATHERINE'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL[1]
Local authority: Bexley[1]
Website: www.stccg.co.uk [1]
District: Bexley [17]
Postcode: DA6 7QJ[1]
URN: 137681[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1040 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language: 10.4% 2024/25[18]
SEN support: 6.5% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan: 1.2% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 20.4% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 20.1%[19]
Mixed: 8.5%[19]
Asian: 10.5%[19]
Black: 56.8%[19]
Any other ethnic group: 1.3%[19]
Unclassified: 2.8%[19]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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