Graded inspection · Jun 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Derbyshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry475 applications · 203 places offered · 266 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.3; Derbyshire median median 1.7
- 2025 2.4; Derbyshire median median 1.7
- 2024 2.2; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2023 2.3; Derbyshire median median 1.9
- 2022 2.3; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2021 2.3; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2020 2.6; Derbyshire median median 2.0
- 2019 2.5; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2018 2.4; Derbyshire median median 1.9
- 2017 2.2; Derbyshire median median 2.0
- 2016 2.3; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2015 2.1; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2014 2.1; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- This school
- Derbyshire 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 | 203 | 475 | 2.3 | 266 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2025 | 206 | 494 | 2.4 | 257 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2024 | 200 | 439 | 2.2 | 250 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2023 | 207 | 480 | 2.3 | 228 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2022 | 207 | 477 | 2.3 | 219 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2021 | 208 | 487 | 2.3 | 238 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2020 | 203 | 532 | 2.6 | 259 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2019 | 200 | 506 | 2.5 | 254 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2018 | 202 | 480 | 2.4 | 242 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2017 | 201 | 447 | 2.2 | 233 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2016 | 198 | 448 | 2.3 | 238 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2015 | 187 | 398 | 2.1 | 216 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2014 | 190 | 407 | 2.1 | 243 | 1.28 |
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 | 60.3 | 66% | 83% | – |
| 2024/25 | 206 | 59.4 | 73% | 85% | – |
| 2023/24 | 204 | 56.6 | 63% | 84% | +0.50 |
| 2022/23 | 207 | 57.3 | 67% | 83% | +0.36 |
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 Mary's Catholic High School, A Catholic Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20242.3applications per place 60.3Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · DerbyshireRemains Good20222.5applications per place 50.6Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · DerbyshireGood20232.3applications per place 52.0Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Derbyshire20261.7applications per place 36.4Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · DerbyshireGood20231.9applications per place 40.4Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · DerbyshireGood20231.8applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · DerbyshireGood20231.5applications per place 49.4Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · DerbyshireGraded · no overall grade20241.6applications per place 38.0Attainment 8
- 7.6 km · DerbyshireSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 42.8Attainment 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
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 138470 · 830/5413
- Trust
- St Mary's Catholic High School Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,260 pupils · 1,400 on roll
- Free school meals
- 18.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2012
- Replaced
- St Mary's Catholic High School (URN 112998)
- Address
- Newbold Road, Upper Newbold, Chesterfield, S41 8AG
- Local authority
- Derbyshire · Chesterfield
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources