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St Columba's Catholic Boys' School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 49 48.9 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
48.9 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
51.5% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
11.8% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
+0.04 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 51.4[5] 53.2%[5]
2023/24 47.4[3] 49.7%[3] +0.04[3]
2022/23 43.4[6] 39%[6] -0.17[6]
2021/22 49.7[7] 46%[7] -0.15[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
93% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
46% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
25% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
18% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
2% 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 92%[9] 46%[9] 29%[9] 16%[9] 0%[9] 2%[9]
2020/21 96%[10] 47%[10] 23%[10] 21%[10] 1%[10] 2%[10]
2019/20 95%[11] 37%[11] 23%[11] 29%[11] 2%[11] 3%[11]
2018/19 97%[12] 50%[12] 22%[12] 25%[12] 0%[12] 0%[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
26 Nov 2024[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
12 Jan 2025[13]
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
Standards maintained[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
23 Jan 2019[14] Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14] No overall grade[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
1.7 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference)
270 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences
84 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered
159 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place
0.5 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 270[15] 77[15] 135[15] 2.0[15] 0.6[15]
Entry Sept 2024 272[15] 73[15] 129[15] 2.1[15] 0.6[15]
Entry Sept 2023 291[15] 82[15] 137[15] 2.1[15] 0.6[15]
Entry Sept 2022 269[15] 78[15] 133[15] 2.0[15] 0.6[15]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy converter[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Boys[1]
Faith
Roman Catholic[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
900[1]
Trust
ST OSCAR ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST[1]
Local authority
Bexley[1]
Website
https://www.st-columbas.co.uk/[1]
District
Bexley[16]
Postcode
DA6 7QB[1]
URN
138650[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
809 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language
22.4% 2024/25[17]
SEN support
8.3% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan
5.1% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
23.1% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
22.1%[18]
Mixed
8.7%[18]
Asian
13.9%[18]
Black
54.5%[18]
Any other ethnic group
0.5%[18]
Unclassified
0.2%[18]

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    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.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  17. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  18. Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.