St Paul's Catholic School
Secondary · Milton Keynes · MK6 5EN
Data updated
Last grade Ofsted published, no newer grade exists
Ofsted graded this school Good in 2016. Every inspection since has been ungraded, and an ungraded inspection cannot change a grade. The most recent found “Standards maintained”. Ofsted's current data file lists only graded inspections from September 2019 onwards, so this grade has dropped out of it, but it is still the school's grade of record, and still on Ofsted's own report page. It is old, so weigh it against the more recent evidence on this page.
Inspected 15 March 2016
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,890 pupils · 100% of 1,891 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 25.3% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 61.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 13.1% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 5.1% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- http://www.st-pauls.org.uk/
- URN
- 110517
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 274 families named it first for 258 Year 7 places, 1.06 first choices per place. We hold 4 Year 7 admissions rounds for it, 2023 to 2026; none was decided by a published distance. The last grade Ofsted published for it is Good, from 2016. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 6.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.06 first-choice applications per place258 places offered · 274 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Milton Keynes school admissions · the wider Milton Keynes authority
GCSE results (2024/2025)
306 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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.
A-level results (2024/2025)
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Schools with a similar intake
Attainment 8, 2024/2025
On attainment 8, this school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.
They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.
| School | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Preston Manor School | 46.2 | |
| The Compton School | 54.8 | |
| The Royal School, Wolverhampton | 43.3 | |
| Whitefriars School | 43 | |
| Ark Isaac Newton Academy | 56.7 | |
| Cranford Community College | 51.7 | |
| Kelmscott School | 43.7 | |
| All Saints Catholic School and Technology College | 56.1 | |
| Alec Reed Academy | 45.1 | |
| The Halifax Academy | 44.1 | |
| Harris Academy Tottenham | 52.8 | |
| Lampton Academy | 52.5 |
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Special educational needs
Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.
- Visual Impairment
- Hearing Impairment
- Speech, Language and Communication Needs
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Moderate Learning Difficulty
Provision type: Resourced provision and SEN unit.
- SEN unit
- 27 of 24 places taken full, or over capacity
- Resourced provision
- 80 of 66 places taken full, or over capacity
Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
Black African 32% (Milton Keynes 13%, England 5%) · White British 23% (Milton Keynes 43%, England 59%) · Any other White background 21% (Milton Keynes 9%, England 7%) · Any other Asian background 7% (Milton Keynes 5%, England 3%) · Asian Indian 2% (Milton Keynes 6%, England 4%) · Any other Black background 2% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black African 2% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 1%) · Any other Mixed background 2% (Milton Keynes 4%, England 3%) · Not recorded 2% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 2%) · Asian Chinese 2% (Milton Keynes 3%, England 1%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (Milton Keynes 2%, England 2%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Milton Keynes 1%, England 1%) · White Irish 1% (Milton Keynes 0%, England 0%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
15.06 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Milton Keynes: 22.03 suspensions and 0.02 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% moved to another state school · 10% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 2.22% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained secondaries: 0.22% vacant, 0.42% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
74.8% of teachers took sickness absence, 7 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £54,107; 9% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
Spending per pupil (2025-26)
Where the money went (2025-26)
Share of spending, with the median for secondary schools in brackets: Staff 76% (77%) · premises 5% (6%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 7% (7%) · supplies and services 8% (10%) · educational supplies 6% (6%) · bought-in professional services 1% (2%) · catering 5% (3%)
Reserves (2025-26)
Revenue reserve £2,001,824; in-year balance +£168,574
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: council-maintained school finance return, 2025-26, DfE · how spending is compared
Where pupils go after GCSEs
suppressed (small cohort)
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.
Inspection history since 2015
- 13 May 2025: Standards maintained
- 12 November 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 15 March 2016: Good
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 22% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 27.5% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 19.2% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 34.9% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 43.1% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 35.7% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 51.6% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 12.2% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 7.8% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 13.5% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 8.2% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 30.6% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01016847 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £270,000148 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £180,000–£330,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 6an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 23an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 1an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted