Trinity Catholic School

Academy converter·Secondary school Leamington Spa, Warwickshire·CV32 6NB
Composite score
45.6
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#2,891
National rank
#343
In West Midlands
#36
In Warwickshire
Top 91%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
36.5
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
30%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
45%
% EBacc grade 5+
11%
EBacc average points score
3.25

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
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
100%
35 first choices, 74 places
First choices per place
0.47
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
151
any preference, for 74 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
0.2420220.2720230.4120240.3520250.472026

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

Every child who put Trinity Catholic School 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
401
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
40.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
33.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
9.2%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
13.9%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
33.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.3
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,649
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
88%
99 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
83%
Apprenticeship
4%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Trinity Catholic School at a glance

Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Trinity Catholic School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 401 pupils aged 11 to 18. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 36.5, below the national average of 46. That is down 0.9 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.

30% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 45% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Trinity Catholic School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 35 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 88% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 13.9%. There are about 14.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 40% 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. If you are considering Trinity Catholic School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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