St Edmund's Catholic School

Type Secondary / Voluntary aided school
Age Range 11-16
Religion Roman Catholic
Address Arundel Street
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 1RX
Phone 02392823766
Reference Number 116505

General Makeup

Number of pupils 1150
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 48.26%
Girls: 51.74%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 26.6%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 46.1%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 25

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 100 130 230
8 113 116 229
9 128 106 234
10 109 119 228
11 105 124 229

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 40.4%
White, Other 22%
African 13.9%
Indian 4.3%
Chinese 4.1%
Asian, Other 3.4%
White & Black (African) 2.6%
White & Asian 2.3%
Mixed, Other 1.8%
White & Black (Caribbean) 0.7%
Unclassified 0.6%
Caribbean 0.5%
Irish 0.2%
Pakistani 0.2%

Overall Ofsted Rating Outstanding
Last Inspection Date 2022-09-21
Date Description Report
2022-06-15 School inspection School inspection
2016-02-02 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2012-12-13 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2012-03-27 Monitoring visit Monitoring visit
2011-09-20 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2010-01-14 Curriculum and development visit Curriculum and development visit
2009-06-11 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2007-11-06 Curriculum and development visit Curriculum and development visit
2006-06-14 Full inspection: Full inspection:
1999-11-29 Full inspection Full inspection

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
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GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 68.6% Unlock Unlock
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 81.7% Unlock Unlock

Progress 8 Score

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.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
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Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

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GCSE Results

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Progress 8 Score

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.

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2024 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
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Second Preference 133 3
Third Preference 55 0
From another Local Authority 62 28

Previous Years

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Destinations after GCSE's

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