St Paul's School for Girls

Voluntary aided school·Secondary school Birmingham·B16 9SL
Composite score
76.2
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#229
National rank
#23
In West Midlands
#11
In Birmingham
Top 7%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
61.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
70%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
87%
% EBacc grade 5+
32%
EBacc average points score
5.26

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
61%
270 first choices, 169 places
First choices per place
1.60
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
796
any preference, for 169 places
Applications from another council area
13%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.30
00.511.52
1 per place
1.2620221.4420231.4420241.2920251.602026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Paul's School for Girls yet. Birmingham does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,046
Gender
Girls
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
39.9%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
11.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.6
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,712
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
99%
164 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
98%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

St Paul's School for Girls is a girls' secondary school serving Birmingham, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 1,046 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 61.0 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 4.1 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 7% of secondary schools in England.

70% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 87% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. St Paul's School for Girls is oversubscribed: about 6 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 270 first choices for 169 places. After Year 11, 99% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 14.6 pupils per teacher. St Paul's School for Girls does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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