St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School, Woking

Academy converter·Secondary school Woking, Surrey·GU22 9AL
Composite score
72.6
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#312
National rank
#79
In South East
#11
In Surrey
Top 10%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
58.1
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
66%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
88%
% EBacc grade 5+
42%
EBacc average points score
5.39

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
71%
321 first choices, 228 places
First choices per place
1.41
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
746
any preference, for 228 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.05
00.511.52
1 per place
1.4820221.4420231.2820241.4620251.412026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School, Woking yet. Surrey 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
1,541
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
6.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
26.5%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.6%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
15.3%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.3
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,342
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
97%
239 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
96%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School, Woking

St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School, Woking is a secondary school in Woking, Surrey, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 1,541 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 58.1 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 2.5 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 10% of secondary schools in England.

66% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 88% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School, Woking is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 321 first choices for 228 places. After Year 11, 97% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 15.3 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 7% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St John the Baptist Catholic Comprehensive School, Woking 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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