St Patrick's RC High School

General Info

Education Phase
Secondary
Ofsted rating
Good
Jun 21 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
Salford
Unique reference
105986
Address
56 New Lane, Eccles, M30 7JJ

Pupils

Number of Pupils
928 (96% of total capacity)
Boys
48.8%
Girls
51.2%
First language not English
19.1%
Free school meals (FSM)
18.3%
Persistent absence
15.0%
Special education needs (SEN)
17.3%
Pupil ethnicities
White British 65.9%
Other White 12.3%
Mixed 9.3%
African 4.4%
Other 2.3%
Indian 2.2%
Unclassified 1.4%
Chinese 0.9%
Other Black 0.4%
Irish 0.3%
Pakistani 0.3%
Other Asian 0.2%
Caribbean 0.1%
Capacity %: Year 2023-2024 Persistent absence and other Pupils data: Year 2024-2025

Exam Results

GCSE Results

Entering EBacc

School 76%
Local authority average 34%
England average 41%

Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

School 55%
Local authority average 40%
England average 45%

Attainment 8 score

School 53.7
Local authority average 42.8
England average 45.9

EBacc average point score

School 5.17
Local authority average 3.76
England average 4.08
Year 2024-2025

Subjects

GCSE Subjects

SubjectQualificationNumber of entries
Building / Construction Operations (General / Combined)Technical Award14
Health StudiesTechnical Award20
Art & DesignGCSE19
Art & Design (3d Studies)GCSE17
BiologyGCSE37
Business Studies:SingleGCSE39
ChemistryGCSE37
ChineseGCSE1
Computer Studies/ComputingGCSE15
English LanguageGCSE183
Year 2024-2025

Admissions

St Patrick's RC High School

Admission Policy
Non-selective
Total available places
171
Status
Oversubscribed
This school is Oversubscribed because there were more 1st preference applications than available places.

Applications

1st preference
262
2nd preference
150
3rd preference
88
From another Local Authority
12
Breakdown of applications made to this school within the deadline (in-year applications are excluded)

Offers

1st preference
169
2nd preference
2
3rd preference
0
To another Local Authority
0
Breakdown of offers made on National Offer Day (in-year applications are excluded)
Year 2025-2026

Class sizes

Class typeClass size
Average size of one-teacher classes21.6
Year 2024-2025

Cohort sizes

Class type
Total
Boys
Girls
Year 7
181
80
101
Year 8
186
106
80
Year 9
188
85
103
Year 10
189
90
99
Year 11
184
92
92
Year 2024-2025

Participation in Education, Training, Employment

Destinations after GCSEs
School
LA
England
Staying in education
81.0%
78.1%
85.5%
Further education
44.0%
58.3%
36.9%
School sixth form
3.0%
2.3%
35.2%
Sixth form college
34.0%
17.0%
12.9%
Other education destinations
0.0%
0.6%
0.5%
Entering employment
6.0%
4.1%
2.6%
Entering apprenticeships
3.0%
2.8%
3.3%
Not in education or employment
7.0%
9.6%
5.7%
Destination unknown
3.0%
5.4%
3.0%
School: Year 2024-2025 Local authority: Year 2022-2023 England: Year 2022-2023

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