Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls

Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls continues to maintain its status as a good school, demonstrating a strong commitment to providing a safe and nurturing environment for all pupils. The school's leadership is focused on academic excellence and personal development, ensuring that students are well-supported in their educational journey. Pupils benefit from a broad curriculum that encourages engagement and ambition, with particular strengths noted in the teachers' supportive approaches and the school's fostering of a sense of community among students. The school has also made strides in enhancing its curriculum in recent years, especially in creative arts and computing, to better serve its diverse student body. The school identifies and supports students needing additional help, especially those arriving mid-year or with specific educational needs. However, there are areas for improvement, particularly in ensuring that all subjects have a well-ordered curriculum that aids long-term knowledge retention. Despite these challenges, the overall feedback from pupils and parents remains positive, with many emphasizing the school’s positive impact on their development and well-being.

Strengths

• Leaders and staff are ambitious for every pupil.
• The school provides a safe, warm, and caring community.
• Students appreciate and benefit from supportive teaching.
• There are many opportunities for pupils to engage in community activities.
• Bullying is effectively addressed, contributing to a positive school atmosphere.
• Students with SEND receive targeted support.
• The curriculum reflects ambition and breadth in the subjects offered.
• Leaders are ambitious for the school to provide excellence in the wider community.

Areas for Improvement

• Learning is not sequenced equally well in all subjects.
• Some students do not remember knowledge deeply in the long term due to lack of coherent sequencing.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls attended 91.6% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 28.8% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 4.7% of pupils at Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 2 pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls had 14.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 12.0% of pupils at Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 1.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls received £9,682 and spent £8,877 for each of its 966 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £970,000 (£1,005 per pupil).

Across all 13 schools of The Diocese of Westminster Academy Trust, income was £7,471 and spending £7,253 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls is part of The Diocese of Westminster Academy Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• St Mark's Catholic School Hounslow
• The Douay Martyrs Catholic School Uxbridge
• St Bernadette Catholic Primary School Uxbridge
• St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School Watford
• Saint Michael's Catholic High School Watford
• Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School St Albans
• The Holy Family Catholic Primary School Welwyn Garden City
• St Margaret Clitherow Roman Catholic Primary School Stevenage
• Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School Stevenage
• The Saint John Henry Newman Catholic School Stevenage

What is Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls is Good, from an inspection in November 2022.

When was Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls last inspected by Ofsted?

Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls was last inspected in November 2022.

How many pupils does Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls have?

Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls has 858 pupils on roll.

What age range does Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls cover?

Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 42.6, and 26% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls?

Saint Claudine's Catholic School for Girls is at Crownhill Road, London, NW10 4EP.