St Joseph's RC High School

General Info

Education Phase
Secondary
Ofsted rating
Requires improvement
Dec 7 2022 Ofsted report
Gender
Mixed
Age range
11 - 16 y.o.
Type
Local authority maintained schools
Funding
State-funded secondary
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious Character
Roman Catholic
Sixth Form
Does not have a sixth form
Local authority
Bolton
Unique reference
105262
Address
Sefton Lane, Horwich, BL6 6HW

Pupils

Number of Pupils
1045 (99% of total capacity)
Boys
51.1%
Girls
48.9%
First language not English
16%
Free school meals (FSM)
19.4%
Persistent absence
22.6%
Special education needs (SEN)
6.8%
Pupil ethnicities
White British 79.4%
Mixed 5.9%
Other White 3.8%
African 1.9%
Unclassified 1.7%
Indian 1.5%
Other Black 1.4%
Pakistani 1.3%
Other Asian 1.1%
Other 0.9%
Chinese 0.5%
Bangladeshi 0.2%
Irish 0.1%
Gypsy/Roma 0.1%
Capacity %: Year 2022-2023 Persistent absence and other Pupils data: Year 2023-2024

Exam Results

GCSE Results

Progress 8 score

This school
-0.11
Local authority average, state-funded schools
-0.08
England average, state-funded schools
-0.03

Entering EBacc

School 47%
Local authority average 31%
England average 39%

Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

School 51%
Local authority average 44%
England average 45%

Attainment 8 score

School 47.8
Local authority average 45.3
England average 46.3

EBacc average point score

School 4.21
Local authority average 3.88
England average 4.05
Year 2022-2023

Subjects

GCSE Subjects

SubjectQualificationNumber of entries
Health StudiesTechnical Award27
ArabicGCSE2
Art & DesignGCSE41
BiologyGCSE31
Business Studies:SingleGCSE45
ChemistryGCSE31
Design & TechnologyGCSE32
English LanguageGCSE203
English LiteratureGCSE199
D&T Food TechnologyGCSE14
Year 2022-2023

Admissions

St Joseph's RC High School

Admission Policy
Non-selective
Total available places
205
Status
Not oversubscribed
This school is Not Oversubscribed because there were fewer 1st preference applications than available places.

Applications

1st preference
205
2nd preference
179
3rd preference
91
From another Local Authority
50
Breakdown of applications made to this school within the deadline (in-year applications are excluded)

Offers

1st preference
192
2nd preference
13
3rd preference
0
To another Local Authority
14
Breakdown of offers made on National Offer Day (in-year applications are excluded)
Year 2024-2025

Class sizes

Class typeClass size
Average size of one-teacher classes24.9
Year 2023-2024

Cohort sizes

Class type
Total
Boys
Girls
Year 7
210
102
108
Year 8
210
115
95
Year 9
207
107
100
Year 10
206
109
97
Year 11
212
101
111
Year 2023-2024

Participation in Education, Training, Employment

Destinations after GCSEs
School
LA
England
Staying in education
82.0%
84.3%
86.5%
Further education
67.0%
44.8%
34.7%
School sixth form
2.0%
16.1%
37.9%
Sixth form college
13.0%
22.9%
13.1%
Other education destinations
1.0%
0.6%
0.9%
Entering employment
5.0%
4.7%
3.9%
Entering apprenticeships
10.0%
3.6%
3.4%
Not in education or employment
2.0%
6.4%
5.2%
Destination unknown
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
School: Year 2022-2023 Local authority: Year 2021-2022 England: Year 2021-2022

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