St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre, Gloucester

Ofsted's report card from its 3 March 2026 inspection grades St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre on 7 areas: 2 expected standard and 5 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils typically attend school regularly."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a coherent personal development programme."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils' achievement is not as high as it should be."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Weaknesses in the quality of teaching have a negative impact on some pupils."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Pupils who face barriers to their learning or wellbeing do not have their needs met well enough."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Leaders have been too slow to make improvements to the school."

Post 16 provision - Needs attention. "Post-16 students, including those who are disadvantaged, do not achieve well enough."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff have sufficient expertise to adapt their teaching to support those pupils who face barriers to their learning, so that the needs of these pupils are met well and they learn successfully"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers use assessment strategies effectively, so that gaps in pupils' learning are identified and remedied swiftly"; "Leaders and staff should raise their expectations of what pupils, including those with high academic starting points, can achieve, so that teaching enables them to meet the ambitious aims of the curriculum and achieve highly"; "Leaders should ensure that the quality of teaching is consistently effective, so that post-16 students and pupils in key stage 4 achieve as highly as they should"; "Leaders should continue their work to embed the careers programme, so that all pupils benefit from strong careers experiences in preparation for their next steps"; "Leaders should ensure that their approach to monitoring and evaluating the impact of their actions to improve the school is sufficiently rigorous and precise, so that they make the necessary improvements and trustees can hold them robustly to account".

In its own words: "We promote honesty, empathy and love for one another. Together we celebrate our faith, our diversity and our uniqueness in the eyes of God. The skills developed at St Peter’s will enable us to make a positive difference in the world."

In 2026, pupils at St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre averaged an Attainment 8 score of 40.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 51.2 in Gloucestershire and 47 across England.

34% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 54% in Gloucestershire and 47% in England.

That is down from 44.1 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.09: pupils made about average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 32.4, against 43.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 11.5 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 20 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Religious Studies and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 297 families put St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre as their first choice and 741 named it as one of their preferences, for 230 places offered. That is 1.3 first choices for every place. 85 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre are Holmleigh Park High School (0.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 44.5); The Crypt School (0.8 miles, Outstanding, selective, Attainment 8 73.3); Ribston Hall High School (1.2 miles, Good, selective, Attainment 8 67.6); and Gloucester Academy (1.5 miles, Attainment 8 41.5).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre.

St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre is run by its own single-school academy trust.

96 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre (as of April 2026): 73% would recommend the school, 73% say their child is happy there and 67% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (76%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (67%).

Of the 238 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 87% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 31% to a further education college, 5% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

Of the 159 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 43% went on to university or other higher education, 8% to apprenticeships and 35% into work. 8% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

In 2026, 167 pupils (10.8%) received SEN support and 54 (3.5%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is a moderate learning difficulty.

The nearest railway station is Gloucester Rail Station, about 2.6 miles away in a straight line.

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is School Bus Park (entrance), 30 metres away.

In 2024/25, St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre issued 316 suspensions, 20.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 3 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre are Willow Primary Academy (0.2 miles), Harewood Infant School (0.7 miles), Harewood Junior School (0.7 miles) and Grange Primary Academy (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.