Arrow Vale High School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 843 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.8
Voluntary aided school
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College
- Pupils on roll
- 1,036of 1,050 places
- Free school meals
- 19.9%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 203
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 23 March 2022Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College has no sixth form. Of the 207 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 59% moved to a sixth form college, 21% to a further education college and 3% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 59% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Religious Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 94% of the year group took it, against 31% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 53.1 against 46.1 across England and 44.2 in Worcestershire, with 59% 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 Worcestershire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 207 | 6,012 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 95% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 90% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 9% | 31% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 59% | 17% | 13% |
| — further education college | 21% | 36% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 4% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 53.1 | 44.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 59% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 77% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 20% | 41% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.40 | 3.92 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 16% | 22% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 33.4 | 30.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 56.9 | 48.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 36% | 10% | 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.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 198 | 98% | 89% | 20% | 20% | 79% |
| Mathematics | 198 | 98% | 88% | 36% | 22% | 83% |
| English Literature | 193 | 95% | 86% | 19% | 21% | 80% |
| Religious Studies | 190 | 94% | 31% | 42% | 32% | 83% |
| Combined Science | 123 | 61% | 65% | 10% | 9% | 70% |
| Physics | 73 | 36% | 23% | 53% | 46% | 90% |
| Biology | 72 | 35% | 23% | 51% | 45% | 99% |
| Chemistry | 72 | 35% | 23% | 56% | 47% | 96% |
| History | 65 | 32% | 41% | 34% | 26% | 78% |
| Computer Science | 55 | 27% | 13% | 31% | 30% | 80% |
| Geography | 52 | 26% | 41% | 44% | 25% | 88% |
| French | 34 | 17% | 18% | 47% | 29% | 88% |
| Fine Art | 28 | 14% | 9% | 29% | 28% | 96% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 28 | 14% | 8% | 29% | 21% | 68% |
| German | 27 | 13% | 5% | 22% | 33% | 70% |
| Photography | 26 | 13% | 6% | 31% | 19% | 92% |
| Graphic Communication | 24 | 12% | 1% | 21% | 23% | 88% |
| Physical Education | 24 | 12% | 11% | 38% | 24% | 96% |
| Design and Technology | 22 | 11% | 11% | 50% | 23% | 91% |
| 3D Design | 19 | 9% | 2% | 42% | 16% | 79% |
| Spanish | 16 | 8% | 19% | 50% | 27% | 88% |
| Polish | 14 | 7% | 1% | 100% | 84% | 100% |
| Music | 11 | 5% | 5% | 27% | 33% | 73% |
| Textiles | 9 | 4% | 2% | 33% | 27% | 89% |
| Portuguese | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Turkish | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
| Italian | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Business Management | 43 | — | — |
| Childcare Skills | 26 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 18 | — | — |
Where Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College is
Other secondary schools in Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Worcestershire
Baxter College
Academy converter · sixth form · 766 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 36.6
Bishop Perowne CofE College
Academy converter · 1,155 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.3
Christopher Whitehead Language College
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,580 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.8
Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form Centre
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,290 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.1
Dyson Perrins CofE Academy
Academy converter · 592 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.8
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.