UK Schools
St Bede's Catholic High School
St Bede's Catholic High School is a mixed local-authority maintained secondary school in Ormskirk, Lancashire County Council, teaching 709 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted graded quality of education as Good at its most recent inspection in November 2024. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 55 (England 46.1). Term dates and holidays for 2025–2026 are listed below.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for St Bede's Catholic High School.
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for St Bede's Catholic High School.
Key dates (2025–2026)
- Inset Day (School closed to pupils) Monday 1st September 2025 Inset Day
- Inset Day (School closed to pupils) Tuesday 2nd September 2025 Inset Day
- Autumn Term Starts (School opens to pupils) Wednesday 3rd September 2025 Term
- Autumn Half Term Holiday Friday 24th October 2025 - Monday 3rd November 2025 Holiday
- Inset Day (School closed to pupils) Friday 5th December 2025 Inset Day
- Autumn Term Ends Friday 19th December 2025 Term
- Spring Term Starts Monday 5th January 2026 Term
- Spring Half Term Holiday Friday 13th February 2026 - Monday 23rd February 2026 Holiday
- Spring Term Ends Friday 27th March 2026 Term
- Summer Term Starts Monday 13th April 2026 Term
- Early May Bank Holiday Monday 4th May 2026 Holiday
- Summer Half Term Holiday Friday 22nd May 2026 - Monday 1st June 2026 Holiday
- Inset Day (School closed to pupils – Planning Day) Friday 26th June 2026 Inset Day
- School closes for pupils (Summer Term Ends for pupils) Friday 17th July 2026 Term
- Inset Day (School closed to pupils) Monday 20th July 2026 Inset Day
- Summer Term Ends Monday 20th July 2026 Term
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare St Bede's Catholic High School with Lancashire County Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 55 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school Lancashire County Council England
Attendance 14.7% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Lancashire County Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 98% 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 St Bede'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 St Bede'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.