Bolton St Catherine's Academy
Primary performance (KS2 SATs)
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Getting a place
Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this
Every child who put Bolton St Catherine's Academy 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).
Getting a place
Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this
Every child who put Bolton St Catherine's Academy 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).
Secondary performance (KS4 GCSE)
Bolton St Catherine's Academy is an all-through school covering ages 3–16, so it has two sets of results. The headline score above reflects its primary (KS2) results, ranked against other primaries; its GCSE (KS4) results — ranked separately against other secondaries — are shown here.
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Ofsted judgements
School profile
- Age range
- 3–16
- Pupils on roll
- 1,020
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
Pupil background
Special educational needs
Attendance
Staffing & funding
“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.
DfE, KS4 destination measures.
Nearby primary schools
Location
Official sources
Bolton St Catherine's Academy at a glance
Located in Bolton, Bolton St Catherine's Academy is an all-through school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 1,020 pupils aged 3 to 16. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 34% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 18.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. At GCSE, the school's average Attainment 8 score was 34.3, well below the national average of 46. On our composite score, Bolton St Catherine's Academy ranks in the lower half of primary schools nationally for its primary (KS2) results. For its secondary (KS4) results, it ranks in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.
Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 100 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). At Key Stage 4, 19% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. Bolton St Catherine's Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 18 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 9.8%. There are about 14.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 54% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Bolton St Catherine's Academy 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.