Voluntary aided school

Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · Roman CatholicHalton, North West · Widnes WA8 7DWSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,337of 1,677 places
Free school meals
41.0%
Year 11 cohort 2025
215
Ofsted
School remains Good, 6 July 2022Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registrations: St Joseph's RC High School (URN 128474); Saints Fisher and More High School (URN 128475).

What the data says

Of the 220 pupils who finished Year 11 at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School in 2023, 2% moved to a sixth form college, 83% to a further education college and 5% started an apprenticeship.

Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 27% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 41.4 against 46.1 across England and 42.1 in Halton, with 33% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Halton and England.

This school
Halton
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureThis schoolHaltonEngland
Pupils in the cohort2201,490607,348
Any sustained destination95%92%92%
Stayed in education88%86%86%
— school sixth form1%6%34%
— sixth form college2%9%13%
— further education college83%69%37%
— other education1%2%2%
Apprenticeship5%4%3%
Employment1%2%3%
No sustained destination3%6%6%
Destination unknown3%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureThis schoolHaltonEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)41.442.146.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths33%39%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths62%59%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects17%24%41%
EBacc average point score3.363.584.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort41%43%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils34.932.434.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils45.849.350.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language6%4%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Mathematics21299%88%7%22%70%
English Language21299%89%11%20%62%
English Literature20093%86%14%21%71%
Religious Studies19490%31%3%32%28%
Combined Science16275%65%3%9%46%
History9444%41%6%26%34%
Geography8238%41%11%25%39%
Art and Design5727%7%14%24%81%
French5425%18%15%29%72%
Business Studies4220%18%26%20%71%
Physics4220%23%12%46%81%
Biology3717%23%24%45%84%
Chemistry3617%23%14%47%81%
Food Preparation and Nutrition2713%8%7%21%56%
Drama209%7%20%27%95%
Music147%5%14%33%71%
Computer Science94%13%22%30%67%
Polish21%1%84%
Spanish10%19%27%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Health Studies55
Animal Care (Non-Agricultural)42
Building / Construction Operations (General / Combined)35
Sports Studies30
Computer Appreciation / Introduction11
Dance: General7

Where Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School is

Other secondary schools in Halton are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Halton’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Halton

The Grange School

Academy sponsor led · 1,200 pupils

79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 36.4

The Heath School

Academy converter · 1,174 pupils

87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.5

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.