St Boniface's RC College

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Plymouth·PL5 3AG
Composite score
48.8
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#2,647
National rank
#272
In South West
#16
In Plymouth
Top 83%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
39.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
25%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
53%
% EBacc grade 5+
7%
EBacc average points score
3.23

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
60 first choices, 61 places
First choices per place
0.98
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
143
any preference, for 61 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.11
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6720220.7820231.0420240.8820250.982026

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

Every child who put St Boniface's RC College first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
392
Gender
Boys
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
34.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
15.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
6.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.7%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
33.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.1
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,844
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
89%
63 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
71%
Apprenticeship
16%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About St Boniface's RC College

St Boniface's RC College is a boys' secondary school in Plymouth, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 392 pupils aged 11 to 16 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 39.0 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.1 points compared with 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.

25% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 53% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made St Boniface's RC College their first choice was offered one of its 61 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 89% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.7%. There are about 19.1 pupils per teacher. St Boniface's RC College 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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