Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Bolton
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry529 applications · 205 places offered · 218 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.6; Bolton median median 2.1
- 2025 2.4; Bolton median median 2.2
- 2024 2.3; Bolton median median 2.3
- 2023 2.7; Bolton median median 2.3
- 2022 2.5; Bolton median median 2.1
- 2021 2.2; Bolton median median 2.2
- 2020 2.3; Bolton median median 2.3
- 2019 2.3; Bolton median median 2.3
- 2018 2.1; Bolton median median 2.1
- 2017 2.5; Bolton median median 1.9
- 2016 2.5; Bolton median median 1.8
- 2015 2.7; Bolton median median 2.1
- 2014 2.4; Bolton median median 2.2
- This school
- Bolton median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 205 | 529 | 2.6 | 218 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2025 | 212 | 516 | 2.4 | 209 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2024 | 205 | 475 | 2.3 | 205 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 210 | 568 | 2.7 | 228 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2022 | 206 | 504 | 2.5 | 195 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2021 | 207 | 448 | 2.2 | 188 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2020 | 206 | 471 | 2.3 | 172 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2019 | 204 | 466 | 2.3 | 179 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2018 | 207 | 439 | 2.1 | 174 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2017 | 180 | 454 | 2.5 | 200 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2016 | 171 | 432 | 2.5 | 182 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2015 | 157 | 425 | 2.7 | 182 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2014 | 167 | 400 | 2.4 | 176 | 1.05 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 205 | 42.4 | 40% | 61% | – |
| 2024/25 | 207 | 44.8 | 50% | 70% | – |
| 2023/24 | 212 | 45.9 | 53% | 74% | −0.14 |
| 2022/23 | 203 | 47.8 | 51% | 70% | −0.11 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Joseph's RC High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.6applications per place 42.4Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · BoltonGood20232.1applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · BoltonGood20222.3applications per place 45.8Attainment 8
- 4.3 km · BoltonRequires significant improvement 20261.4applications per place 40.2Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · Bolton20261.5applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · BoltonGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 43.0Attainment 8
- 6.0 km · BoltonGraded · no overall grade20242.0applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 6.2 km · BoltonRemains Outstanding20233.0applications per place 57.0Attainment 8
- 6.2 km · BoltonGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 56.5Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 105262 · 350/4609
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,050 pupils · 1,047 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- Sefton Lane, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 6HW
- Local authority
- Bolton
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources