St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre

Academy converter·Secondary school Gloucestershire·GL4 0DD
Composite score
55.1
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#1,893
National rank
#186
In South West
#27
In Gloucestershire
Top 60%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
44.1
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
43%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
64%
% EBacc grade 5+
2%
EBacc average points score
3.70

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
71%
297 first choices, 230 places
First choices per place
1.29
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
741
any preference, for 230 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.07
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1220221.0920231.1120241.2220251.292026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre yet. Gloucestershire 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
1,534
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
24.6%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
20.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
27.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,085
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
94%
237 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
86%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre

St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre is a secondary school in Gloucestershire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 1,534 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 44.1, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That is down 1.0 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

43% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 64% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 71% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (297 first choices for 230 places). After Year 11, 94% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.0%. There are about 19.5 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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