St Benedict's Catholic High School
Alcester, B49 6PX · Warwickshire local authority
Alcester’s School Grade B better than 59% of towns in England
What stands out about St Benedict's Catholic High School
- Its own letter, C−: GCSE results better than 20% of England’s secondary schools
- 33% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 14 points below England’s schools
- Room to spare: 455 pupils for 798 places
- Ofsted: Good, March 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (58 of 58)
- Progress 8 of +0.33 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did better at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (B49 6) sold for a median £340,000; Alcester’s is £285,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 48 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools St Benedict's Catholic High beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 40.5
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 21% of schools · Warwickshire avg 50
Grade 5+ in English and maths 33%
A strong pass · higher than 20% of schools · Warwickshire avg 52%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
+0.33: above average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 19 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at St Benedict's Catholic High School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (12), 2020 (1), 2021 (1), 2022 (3), 2023 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. St Raphael the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Warwickshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Alcester and Warwickshire, side by side
2025/26All 37 graded secondaries in Warwickshire. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Alcester’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford Girls' Grammar School | A+ | 3% | 81.9 |
| King Edward VI School | A+ | 3% | 81.1 |
| Rugby High School | A+ | 9% | 77.1 |
| Lawrence Sheriff School | A+ | 10% | 75.7 |
| Alcester Grammar School | A+ | 2% | 75.5 |
| North Leamington School | A | 18% | 56.9 |
| Kenilworth School and Sixth Form | A | 10% | 56.2 |
| Studley High School | A− | 18% | 51.7 |
| Higham Lane School | B+ | 17% | 51 |
| George Eliot Academy | B+ | 35% | 50.9 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Sixth Form College | B+ | 21% | 50.9 |
| Myton School | A− | 20% | 50.5 |
| Ashlawn School | B+ | 18% | 50.2 |
| Southam College | B | 19% | 49.9 |
| Alcester Academy | B+ | 21% | 48.9 |
| Etone College | B | 32% | 48.2 |
| Stratford Upon Avon School | B | 25% | 47.7 |
| The Queen Elizabeth Academy | B− | 31% | 46.6 |
| Houlton School | B | 20% | 46 |
| Ash Green School | B | 37% | 45.5 |
| Henley In Arden School | B− | 19% | 44.5 |
| Kineton High School | C+ | 22% | 43.9 |
| Rugby Free Secondary School | C | 26% | 43.5 |
| Shipston High School | C | 24% | 43.3 |
| Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy | C+ | 26% | 43.3 |
| The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College | C+ | 33% | 42.7 |
| Aylesford School Warwick | C | 26% | 42.4 |
| The Polesworth School | C | 20% | 42 |
| The Coleshill School | C | 23% | 42 |
| Campion School | C | 34% | 41.8 |
| Harris Church of England Academy | C | 37% | 41.8 |
| Nuneaton Academy | C | 47% | 41.8 |
| Hartshill Academy | C− | 41% | 40.6 |
| St Benedict's Catholic High School | C− | 32% | 40.5 |
| Bilton School | C− | 31% | 39.3 |
| Nicholas Chamberlaine School | D | 35% | 37.1 |
| Trinity Catholic School | D | 40% | 37.1 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025513 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
St Benedict's Catholic High School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, March 2024.
Living near St Benedict's Catholic High School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in B49 6, the school’s postcode sector
Alcester property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in B49 6 sell for well over Alcester’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
4 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Alcester, B49 6PX
St Benedict's Catholic High School: common questions
Is St Benedict's Catholic High School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its GCSE results are better than 20% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is C−), with an Attainment 8 of 40.5 and 33% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, March 2024.
How hard is it to get into St Benedict's Catholic High School?
For September 2026, 58 families put St Benedict's Catholic High School first and all of them were offered a place; 82 places were offered in all.
What is St Benedict's Catholic High School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2024).
How much do houses cost near St Benedict's Catholic High School?
Homes in its postcode sector, B49 6, sold for a median £340,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (232 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Alcester’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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