UK Schools
Our Lady's Catholic High School
Our Lady's Catholic High School is a mixed local-authority maintained secondary school in Preston, Lancashire County Council, teaching 902 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted rated it Good at its last graded inspection in September 2022. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 50 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 24 October 2025 to 17 July 2026.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Our Lady's Catholic High School.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Our Lady's Catholic High School.
- 1 INSET Day – pupils at home
- 2 Pupil Review Day
- 3 Year 7 to school
- 4 All pupils return to school
- 3 INSET Day – pupils at home
- 24 Half-term starts – school closes at 3.00 pm
- 3 All pupils return to school after half-term
- 19 End of Autumn Term – school closes at 12.35 pm
- 22–31 Christmas Holiday – two-week break between Autumn and Spring terms
- 25 Christmas Day
- 26 Boxing Day
- 1–2 Christmas Holiday – two-week break between Autumn and Spring terms
- 1 New Year’s Day
- 5 All pupils return to school – start of Spring Term
- 13 Spring Half-term starts – school closes at 3.00 pm
- 23 INSET Day – pupils at home
- 24 All pupils return to school after half-term
- 2 End of Spring Term – school closes at 12.35 pm
- 3–17 Easter Holiday – two-week break between Spring and Summer terms
- 3 Good Friday
- 6 Easter Monday
- 20 All pupils return to school – start of Summer Term
- 4 School closed for May Day
- 4 Early May Bank Holiday
- 22 Summer Half-term starts – school closes at 3.00 pm
- 25 Spring Bank Holiday
- 1 All pupils return to school after half-term
- 17 End of Summer Term – school closes at 12.35 pm
- 18–31 Summer Holiday – approximately six weeks between academic years
- 20 INSET Day – pupils at home
- 1–31 Summer Holiday – approximately six weeks between academic years
- 31 Summer Bank Holiday
Key dates (2025–2026)
- INSET Day – pupils at home September 1, 2025 Inset Day
- Pupil Review Day September 2, 2025 Event
- Year 7 to school September 3, 2025 Event
- All pupils return to school September 4, 2025 Event
- INSET Day – pupils at home October 3, 2025 Inset Day
- Half-term starts – school closes at 3.00 pm October 24, 2025 Term
- All pupils return to school after half-term November 3, 2025 Term
- End of Autumn Term – school closes at 12.35 pm December 19, 2025 Term
- All pupils return to school – start of Spring Term January 5, 2026 Term
- Spring Half-term starts – school closes at 3.00 pm February 13, 2026 Term
- INSET Day – pupils at home February 23, 2026 Inset Day
- All pupils return to school after half-term February 24, 2026 Term
- End of Spring Term – school closes at 12.35 pm April 2, 2026 Term
- All pupils return to school – start of Summer Term April 20, 2026 Term
- School closed for May Day May 4, 2026 Event
- Summer Half-term starts – school closes at 3.00 pm May 22, 2026 Term
- All pupils return to school after half-term June 1, 2026 Term
- End of Summer Term – school closes at 12.35 pm July 17, 2026 Term
- INSET Day – pupils at home July 20, 2026 Inset Day
- Christmas Holiday – two-week break between Autumn and Spring terms December 22, 2025 - January 2, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday – two-week break between Spring and Summer terms April 3 - April 17, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Holiday – approximately six weeks between academic years July 18 - August 31, 2026 Holiday
- New Year’s Day January 1, 2026 Event
- Good Friday April 3, 2026 Event
- Easter Monday April 6, 2026 Holiday
- Early May Bank Holiday May 4, 2026 Holiday
- Spring Bank Holiday May 25, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Bank Holiday August 31, 2026 Holiday
- Christmas Day December 25, 2025 Holiday
- Boxing Day December 26, 2025 Event
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Our Lady's Catholic High School with Lancashire County Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 50 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school Lancashire County Council England
Attendance 12.7% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Lancashire County Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 88% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school Lancashire County Council England
About this data source & caveats
Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.
We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.
Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Our Lady's Catholic High School. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.
Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Location & catchment area
Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Our Lady's Catholic High School than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.