Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 58 57.8 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 57.8 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 66.5% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 25% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.82 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	60[5]	69.3%[5]
2023/24	58.7[3]	70.1%[3]	+0.82[3]
2022/23	59.2[6]	66%[6]	+0.86[6]
2021/22	60.8[7]	73%[7]	+0.75[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 97% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 2% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 81% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 10% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2021/22[9]
Employment: 1% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	96%[9]	2%[9]	74%[9]	16%[9]	1%[9]	4%[9]
2020/21	93%[10]	3%[10]	69%[10]	19%[10]	1%[10]	1%[10]
2019/20	94%[11]	3%[11]	75%[11]	14%[11]	1%[11]	2%[11]
2018/19	97%[12]	0%[12]	74%[12]	18%[12]	3%[12]	2%[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: 27 Jun 2023[13]
Type: S5 Inspection[13]
Report published: 19 Sep 2023[13]
Personal development: Outstanding[13]
Quality of education: Outstanding[13]
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding[13]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
16 Nov 2021[14]	Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[14]	No overall grade[14]
Date not published[15]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15]	No overall grade[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.2 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 608 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 299 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 191 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 1.6 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	553[16]	282[16]	179[16]	3.1[16]	1.6[16]
Entry Sept 2024	562[16]	290[16]	182[16]	3.1[16]	1.6[16]
Entry Sept 2023	583[16]	290[16]	182[16]	3.2[16]	1.6[16]
Entry Sept 2022	558[16]	268[16]	176[16]	3.2[16]	1.5[16]

Admissions

Application deadline, 11+ entry: 31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[17]

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: 1034[1]
Local authority: Southampton[1]
Website: www.stgcc.co.uk [1]
District: Southampton [18]
Postcode: SO16 3DQ[1]
URN: 116507[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1026 2024/25[19]
English as an additional language: 44.2% 2024/25[19]
SEN support: 11.8% 2024/25[19]
EHC plan: 3.4% 2024/25[19]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 18.9% 2024/25[19]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 60.1%[20]
Mixed: 9.7%[20]
Asian: 19.4%[20]
Black: 8.9%[20]
Any other ethnic group: 1.6%[20]
Unclassified: 0.2%[20]

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.
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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.
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For Main Round Year 7 applications the closing date is 31st October 2026 (p. 2)
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