St Michael's Catholic School
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
The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2026 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.
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
The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants, and in 2026 the last place went under “rule 7d (Other Children, by Distance)”. Published by the council in its 2026 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.
Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).
Secondary performance (KS4 GCSE)
St Michael's Catholic School is an all-through school covering ages 3–19, 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
- 3–19
- Pupils on roll
- 2,355
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-Selective
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
About St Michael's Catholic School
St Michael's Catholic School is an all-through school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 2,355 pupils aged 3 to 19 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 68% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That is down 10.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. At GCSE, the school's average Attainment 8 score was 49.1, above the national average of 46. On our composite score, St Michael's Catholic School ranks in the top 28% of primary schools nationally for its primary (KS2) results. For its secondary (KS4) results, it ranks in the top 33% of secondary schools nationally.
Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 109 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 13% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). At Key Stage 4, 46% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. St Michael's Catholic School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 41 families who put it first were offered a place. The council's own allocation figures show the last child offered a place for 2026 lived 3.33 miles away in a straight line — that distance is not a fixed catchment and moves each year. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 17.4 pupils per teacher. St Michael's Catholic School 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.