Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in PlymouthSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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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 entry143 applications · 61 places offered · 60 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.3; Plymouth median median 2.0
- 2025 1.7; Plymouth median median 1.9
- 2024 1.9; Plymouth median median 1.9
- 2023 1.4; Plymouth median median 1.9
- 2022 1.3; Plymouth median median 2.0
- 2021 1.8; Plymouth median median 1.9
- 2020 1.0; Plymouth median median 1.8
- 2019 2.0; Plymouth median median 2.0
- 2018 1.3; Plymouth median median 2.0
- 2017 1.9; Plymouth median median 1.9
- 2016 1.9; Plymouth median median 2.1
- 2015 2.1; Plymouth median median 2.0
- 2014 1.9; Plymouth median median 2.2; as the previous school
- This school
- Plymouth median
Dashed bars: as St Boniface's RC College (URN 113558), the previous school.
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 | 61 | 143 | 2.3 | 60 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2025 | 72 | 125 | 1.7 | 63 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2024 | 73 | 141 | 1.9 | 76 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2023 | 78 | 111 | 1.4 | 61 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2022 | 64 | 80 | 1.3 | 43 | 0.67 |
| Sep 2021 | 63 | 114 | 1.8 | 27 | 0.43 |
| Sep 2020 | 75 | 77 | 1.0 | 48 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2019 | 60 | 117 | 2.0 | 47 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2018 | 88 | 112 | 1.3 | 56 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2017 | 75 | 144 | 1.9 | 69 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2016 | 78 | 151 | 1.9 | 68 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2015 | 76 | 158 | 2.1 | 69 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2014 * | 65 | 125 | 1.9 | 60 | 0.92 |
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.) | 75 | 37.8 | 27% | 57% | – |
| 2024/25 | 76 | 39.0 | 25% | 53% | – |
| 2023/24 | 66 | 40.1 | 29% | 58% | −0.28 |
| 2022/23 | 63 | 36.6 | 24% | 56% | −0.63 |
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 Boniface's RC CollegeThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 37.8Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · PlymouthRequires improvement20242.0applications per place 44.5Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · PlymouthGood20231.9applications per place 36.5Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · PlymouthGood2022
- 1.8 km · PlymouthImproved significantly20252.2applications per place 74.9Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.9 km · PlymouthSpecial measures 20262.0applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · Plymouth20261.7applications per place 45.8Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · PlymouthGood20241.6applications per place 45.6Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · Plymouth20261.5applications per place 44.6Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 140693 · 879/4002
- Trust
- Plymouth Cast
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 400 pupils · 389 on roll
- Free school meals
- 37.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2014
- Replaced
- St Boniface's RC College (URN 113558)
- Address
- 21 Boniface Lane, Crownhill, Plymouth, PL5 3AG
- Local authority
- Plymouth
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources