St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy

St Patrick's Catholic College demonstrates a strong standard of education with significant improvements in key areas such as attendance and pupil behavior. The school fosters an inclusive environment, ensuring that all pupils feel safe and valued. Leaders have made concerted efforts to enhance pupil achievement over recent years, though some areas require further focus, particularly in the consistency of knowledge development across the curriculum. While the school serves a community where many students face barriers to learning, the concerted efforts of staff and leaders have led to overall positive student engagement and progress.

Strengths

• Robust systems supporting high attendance and reducing persistent absence
• Consistently high expectations for pupil behavior
• Inclusion of tailored support for students with special educational needs
• Broad and ambitious curriculum designed for comprehensive skill development
• Effective teaching strategies employed by subject specialists
• Good personal development programs with opportunities for community engagement

Areas for Improvement

• Need for deeper knowledge development across the curriculum
• Inconsistent adaptation of teaching to support all students in deepening their understanding

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 St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy attended 91.9% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 28.7% 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, 16.4% of pupils at St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 3 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 St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy had 17.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.1% 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, 13.9% of pupils at St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 2.3% 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 St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy received £8,416 and spent £8,102 for each of its 551 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £359,000 (£652 per pupil).

Across all 38 schools of Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, income was £7,521 and spending £7,443 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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All schools in Stockton-On-Tees · Stockton-on-Tees local authority: places and applications

St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy is part of Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, which runs 38 schools. The nearest others:

• St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic Academy Stockton-On-Tees
• Christ The King Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic Academy Stockton-On-Tees
• St Clare's RC Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Therese of Lisieux Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Catholic Academy Stockton-On-Tees
• St Edward's Catholic Primary School Middlesbrough
• Sacred Heart Primary School Middlesbrough
• Trinity Catholic College Middlesbrough
• St Gerard's RC Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Thomas More RC Primary School Middlesbrough
• St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Middlesbrough

What is St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy is Expected standard, from an inspection in March 2026.

When was St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy was last inspected in March 2026.

How many pupils does St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy have?

St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy has 567 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy cover?

St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 46.0, and 48% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy?

St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic Academy is at Baysdale Road, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, TS17 9DE.