St John's Catholic Specialist School, Boston Spa
Special / other · Wetherby · LS23 6DF
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 7 February 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
89 pupils · 85% of 105 capacity
- School type
- Non-maintained special school
- Age range
- 3–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 25.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.stjohns.org.uk
- URN
- 108120
GCSE results (2024/2025)
17 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 7 February 2024: Good
- 11 February 2020: Requires improvement
- 29 November 2018: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Primrose Lane Primary School
- St Mary's Church of England Controlled Primary School Boston Spa
- St Edward's Catholic Primary School, Boston Spa
- Boston Spa Academy
- Lady Elizabeth Hastings' CofE VA Primary School, Thorp Arch
- Bramham Primary School
- Wetherby High School
- St James' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School