St Peter's RC High School, Longsight

Ofsted's report card from its 7 July 2026 inspection grades St Peter's RC High School on 6 areas: 4 exceptional and 2 strong standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Exceptional. "Pupils have very high attendance because this is a place they really want to be."

Inclusion - Exceptional. "The school provides high-quality education for pupils with diverse starting points, needs and vulnerabilities."

Leadership and governance - Exceptional. "Leaders and staff have an expert understanding of the barriers that deprivation can create for pupils' safety, belonging and aspiration."

Personal development and wellbeing - Exceptional. "The school's expertly designed personal development programme is carefully tailored to pupils' contexts, starting points and aspirations."

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils usually join the school with starting points that are close to or often below those seen nationally."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "The school's overall curriculum supports a sustained culture of academic aspiration for all pupils."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to hone the responsive strategies that staff use to further enhance pupils' oracy skills so that pupils achieve exceptionally well in all of the subjects that they study".

In 2026, pupils at St Peter's RC High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 50.7, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 47.3 in Manchester and 47 across England.

50% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 47% in Manchester and 47% in England.

That is up from 47.4 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.57: pupils made well above 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 47.5, against 54 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 6.5 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 24 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Combined Science and History.

For September 2026 entry, 223 families put St Peter's RC High School as their first choice and 774 named it as one of their preferences, for 187 places offered. That is 1.2 first choices for every place. 58 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to St Peter's RC High School are Co-op Academy Belle Vue (0.3 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 52.9); Dean Trust Ardwick (0.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 48.4); Cedar Mount Academy (0.9 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 40.5); and Manchester Enterprise Academy Central (1 mile, Good, Attainment 8 47.3).

St Peter's RC High School's 2026 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Of the 205 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 85% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 20% to a further education college, 3% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

47.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 28% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Black (45%), White British (16%) and Asian (15%).

St Peter's RC High School has a resourced provision for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia and autism: 12 places, 12 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Belle Vue Rail Station, about 820 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).

14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Peter's High School (outside), 50 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood St Peter's RC High School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, St Peter's RC High School issued 182 suspensions, 17.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to St Peter's RC High School are Stanley Grove Primary Academy (0.3 miles), All Saints Primary School (0.5 miles), St Agnes C of E Primary School (0.5 miles) and St Richard's RC Primary School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.