St Edmund's Catholic School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 56 56.0 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 56 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 64% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 20.7% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.66 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	58.9[5]	70.9%[5]
2023/24	55.6[3]	68.6%[3]	+0.66[3]
2022/23	52.5[6]	61%[6]	+0.59[6]
2021/22	56.7[7]	68%[7]	+0.65[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 90% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 3% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 27% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 55% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 3% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 2% 2021/22[9]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	93%[9]	8%[9]	11%[9]	71%[9]	1%[9]	2%[9]
2020/21	95%[10]	4%[10]	11%[10]	76%[10]	1%[10]	4%[10]
2019/20	97%[11]	6%[11]	41%[11]	45%[11]	2%[11]	3%[11]
2018/19	93%[12]	3%[12]	29%[12]	57%[12]	2%[12]	1%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 15 Jun 2022[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 21 Sep 2022[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Outstanding[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
Date not published[14]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14]	Outstanding[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.9 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference): 700 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences: 416 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered: 238 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place: 1.7 Entry Sept 2026[15]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	678[15]	436[15]	237[15]	2.9[15]	1.8[15]
Entry Sept 2024	643[15]	416[15]	230[15]	2.8[15]	1.8[15]
Entry Sept 2023	556[15]	352[15]	223[15]	2.5[15]	1.6[15]
Entry Sept 2022	504[15]	341[15]	220[15]	2.3[15]	1.6[15]

Character & practicalities

Type: Voluntary aided school[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Faith: Roman Catholic[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1200[1]
Local authority: Portsmouth[1]
Website: http://www.saintedmunds.org.uk [1]
District: Portsmouth [16]
Postcode: PO1 1RX[1]
URN: 116505[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1150 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language: 46.5% 2024/25[17]
SEN support: 11.1% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan: 2.6% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 28.3% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 58.4%[18]
Mixed: 6.6%[18]
Asian: 12.4%[18]
Black: 20.7%[18]
Any other ethnic group: 1.2%[18]
Unclassified: 0.7%[18]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2015/16. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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