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Bonus Pastor Catholic College

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth form · Roman CatholicLewisham, London · Bromley BR1 5PZTrust: St Benedict Catholic Academy TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
919of 900 places
Free school meals
26.9%
Year 11 cohort 2025
175
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding, 12 October 2023Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Bonus Pastor Catholic College (URN 100752, until 1 April 2024).

What the data says

Bonus Pastor Catholic College has no sixth form. Of the 181 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 43% moved to a sixth form college, 11% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 43% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Religious Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 100% of the year group took it, against 31% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 50.7 against 46.1 across England and 46.7 in Lewisham, with 43% 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 Lewisham and England.

This school
Lewisham
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureThis schoolLewishamEngland
Pupils in the cohort1812,282607,348
Any sustained destination98%93%92%
Stayed in education97%91%86%
— school sixth form37%43%34%
— sixth form college43%24%13%
— further education college11%19%37%
— other education6%4%2%
Apprenticeship1%1%3%
Employment1%1%3%
No sustained destination1%4%6%
Destination unknown1%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureThis schoolLewishamEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)50.746.746.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths43%45%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths71%63%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects41%54%41%
EBacc average point score4.404.304.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort27%38%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils43.737.934.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils53.352.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language7%30%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
English Language175100%89%17%20%70%
English Literature175100%86%22%21%76%
Religious Studies175100%31%37%32%76%
Mathematics175100%88%16%22%78%
Combined Science15186%65%7%9%61%
History13778%41%31%26%61%
Business Studies8146%18%35%20%73%
Computer Science4526%13%29%30%69%
Spanish4123%19%41%27%76%
Geography3822%41%26%25%74%
Graphic Communication2917%1%14%23%79%
Physical Education2715%11%4%24%74%
Fine Art2715%9%30%28%70%
Chemistry2414%23%67%47%100%
Biology2414%23%58%45%100%
Physics2414%23%71%46%100%
French1810%18%39%29%78%
Polish169%1%94%84%100%
Drama159%7%0%27%73%
Music137%5%8%33%69%
Photography116%6%18%19%91%
Portuguese21%0%50%
Italian21%0%53%
Russian11%0%87%
Chinese11%1%75%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Multimedia37
Sports Studies17

Where Bonus Pastor Catholic College is

Other secondary schools in Lewisham 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 Lewisham’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Lewisham

Forest Hill School

Community school · sixth form · 1,080 pupils

90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.3

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.