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Selective secondary school in Slough

St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School

1 Langley Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL3 7AF

Ofsted Outstanding · 2023 Selective Sixth form Roman Catholic Full
School website 01753527020

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 7 November 2023

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 7 November 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

77.3 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

98% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

99% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

7.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

97% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.93confidence interval 0.71 to 1.16

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B
Average points per entry
40

England average 32.3

A level students
165

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1178
Places
894
How full
Full — 1178 pupils against 894 places
Girls / boys
540 / 638
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
17%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
5%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
36%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
3%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
98%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
94%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
124

After sixth form

Went to university
74%

England 50%

In education, work or training
89%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
179

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

47% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
88%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
155

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Slough 010E, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
52%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
78%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
6%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
32%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Paul Kassapian
Local authority
Slough
Ward
Langley St Mary's
Constituency
Slough
URN
110084

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Upton Court Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 79.9 0.3 mi
Ditton Park AcademyFree schools Good 2023 47.4 0.6 mi
Long Close SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
The Langley AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 52.4 0.9 mi
Langley Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 77.6 1 mi
Langley Hall Arts AcademyOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
St Joseph's Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50.1 1.1 mi
Lynch Hill Enterprise AcademyFree schools No grade 38.3 1.2 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
The Judd SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 78.4
St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 83.6
Ermysted's Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 67.3
Chelmsford County High School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 80.7
Nonsuch High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 80.5
Cranbrook SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 66.9
Bexley Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 74.7
Sale Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 76.1

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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