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Secondary school in London, Westminster

St George's Catholic School

Lanark Road, Maida Vale, London, W9 1RB

Sixth form Roman Catholic Full
School website 02073280904
Ofsted No grade January 2025
Attainment 8 55.9 in the top quarter nationally
Chance of a place 72% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 4/10 mid-range

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 28 January 2025.

This inspection did not give an overall grade. Read the report for Ofsted's findings; it cannot be compared as a single score with a historic grade.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Report card — no overall grade
Last overall grade in this dataset
Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
Days since inspection
612 days
Framework era
Current framework (no overall grade)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

55.9 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

62% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

77% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

71% England 40.8%

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

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.72confidence interval 0.51 to 0.92

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
35.8

England average 32.3

A level students
81

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

About as many first choices as places. Of the 166 families who named this school as their first choice, 72% were offered a place.

Places offered
175

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice
166
First choices per place
0.95

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
72%

England 88.5%

First preferences per place are up 26% on three years ago.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1170
Places
1100
How full
Full — 1170 pupils against 1100 places
Girls / boys
561 / 609
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
20%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
35%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
29%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
5

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
145

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
25
Busiest road nearby
A5

15,514 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
17

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Maida Vale Underground Station

0.4 km away — metro or tram stop

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
96%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
95%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
73%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
162

After sixth form

Went to university
54%

England 50%

In education, work or training
83%

England 84.4%

Started an apprenticeship
7%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
106

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

20% 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
74%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
81

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 area around the school

4/10 Deprivation decile

Among the more deprived half of England.

3/10 Child poverty decile

Among the more deprived half of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£900,000

postcode sector W9 1 · 348 sales

Typical range
£676,250 to £1,250,000

middle half of sales

Semi-detached
£7,350,000
Terraced
£3,700,000
Flat
£880,000

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
44%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
19%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
26%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
19%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
59%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
14%

England 62.7%

Social housing
46%

England 17%

Privately rented
39%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
6%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
17%

England 22.5%

No car
67%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Westminster 002E and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Executive Headteacher: Cathal Gregory
Opened as this establishment
1 March 2013
Register status
Open
Local authority
Westminster
Ward
Maida Vale
Constituency
Queen's Park and Maida Vale
URN
139369

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Year 7

1.30 2014/15: 0.60 first choices per place2015/16: 0.89 first choices per place2016/17: 1.14 first choices per place2017/18: 1.17 first choices per place2018/19: 1.05 first choices per place2019/20: 0.84 first choices per place2020/21: 0.95 first choices per place2021/22: 1.01 first choices per place2022/23: 1.03 first choices per place2023/24: 0.76 first choices per place2024/25: 0.82 first choices per place2025/26: 0.76 first choices per place2026/27: 0.95 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 146 88 0.60 83%
2015/16 144 128 0.89 73%
2016/17 144 164 1.14 62%
2017/18 148 173 1.17 57%
2018/19 147 154 1.05 66%
2019/20 205 172 0.84 80%
2020/21 178 169 0.95 75%
2021/22 175 177 1.01 72%
2022/23 176 182 1.03 78%
2023/24 176 133 0.76 92%
2024/25 177 145 0.82 71%
2025/26 206 156 0.76 90%
2026/27 175 166 0.95 72%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8DistanceCompare
St Augustine's Federated Schools: CE High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 44.3 0.11-0.11 to 0.34 · not a win 0.2 mi
The School of the Islamic Republic of IranOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.4 mi
The American School in LondonOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.5 mi
Maida Vale SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.5 mi
Paddington AcademyAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2023 61.6 0.850.63 to 1.06 0.6 mi
Harris Academy St John's WoodAcademy sponsor led No overall grade 51 0.530.32 to 0.74 0.6 mi
Westminster AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 48.3 -0.05-0.26 to 0.15 · not a win 0.9 mi
The UCL AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 45.9 -0.16-0.38 to 0.06 · not a win 0.9 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 55.9
Median of its 12 closest peers 45.2
Westminster average 40.3
England average 47

Attainment 8 score. This school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8Compare
The Highcrest AcademyAcademy converter High Wycombe No overall grade 38.5 -0.39-0.60 to -0.18
Thomas Bennett Community CollegeAcademy converter Crawley Good 2022 33.1 -0.95-1.16 to -0.73
Parliament Hill SchoolCommunity school London Outstanding 2024 57.1 0.500.28 to 0.72
Priory SchoolAcademy sponsor led Southsea Good 2022 44.7 -0.55-0.73 to -0.36
The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts CollegeFoundation school Rugby Good 2023 44.4 -0.28-0.47 to -0.09
Beaumont Leys SchoolCommunity school Leicester No overall grade 45.2 -0.13-0.33 to 0.08 · not a win
Kingswood Secondary AcademyAcademy sponsor led Corby No overall grade 42.9 0.10-0.10 to 0.31 · not a win
St Thomas More Catholic SchoolAcademy converter London Outstanding 2024 54.1 0.460.27 to 0.66
Ormiston Sandwell Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led Oldbury Good 2023 42.3 -0.38-0.56 to -0.19
Manor Croft AcademyAcademy sponsor led Dewsbury Good 2022 47.8 0.250.04 to 0.45
Sir Jonathan North Girls' CollegeAcademy converter Leicester No overall grade 52.6 0.510.32 to 0.70
Clapton Girls' AcademyAcademy converter London Outstanding 2024 59.4 0.840.63 to 1.06

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 139369; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 28 January 2025
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Progress 8DfE performance tables2023/24Exact URN; confidence interval retained
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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