St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School

Type Primary
Age Range 3-11
Religion Roman Catholic
Address Queensway
Higher Folds
Leigh
Lancashire
WN7 2XG
Phone 01942769712
Reference Number 106506

Description

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St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School, located at WN7 2XG in Higher Folds, is a Voluntary Aided, 1.5 form entry institution serving approximately 324 pupils, with a nursery providing excellent provision for three-year-olds. As a Catholic school, it promotes Christian values and coverage of diverse backgrounds, focusing on respect, love, forgiveness, honesty, courage, effort, and responsibility. The school is committed to high-quality teaching and learning to foster ambitious academic achievement, offering a variety of extra-curricular activities that enrich learning, and provides specialist support from professionals like pastoral managers, speech and language therapists, counsellors, and educational psychologists. The school features an extended and refurbished building with a stimulating learning environment, and the staff are highly dedicated and skilled, striving to help all students reach their full potential. The school's mission statement is "Pray, Learn, Achieve and Celebrate Together," and it upholds the commandment to love one another as Jesus has loved them, encouraging the practice of respect and tolerance.

General Makeup

Number of pupils 346
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 48.84%
Girls: 51.16%

Year Groups

Year Number of pupils
1 48
2 40
3 39
4 42
5 47
6 46

Ofsted Rating Good
Last Inspection Date 2019-03-12
Date Description Report
2019-02-05 Short inspection Short inspection
2014-11-12 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2013-04-16 Monitoring visit Monitoring visit
2013-02-21 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2011-05-18 Curriculum and development visit Curriculum and development visit
2010-06-23 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2006-11-08 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2001-09-17 Full inspection Full inspection

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 73% Upgrade Upgrade
Pupils meeting a higher standard 9% Upgrade Upgrade

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 109 Upgrade Upgrade
Maths 109 Upgrade Upgrade

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 3.6 Upgrade Upgrade
Writing -0.9 Upgrade Upgrade
Maths 4.6 Upgrade Upgrade

How many students meet the standards

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

2023 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference Upgrade Upgrade
Second Preference 6 0
Third Preference 11 2
From another Local Authority 2 2

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Attainment 8 score percentile

Students getting 5 or more GCSE's at grade 9-4 (A-C)

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