UK Schools
St Cecilia's RC High School
St Cecilia's RC High School is a mixed local-authority maintained secondary school in Preston, Lancashire County Council, teaching 581 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted graded quality of education as Good at its most recent inspection in January 2025. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 46.2 (England 46.1). Term dates and holidays for 2025–2026 are listed below.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for St Cecilia's RC 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 Cecilia's RC High School.
Key dates (2025–2026)
- School reopens for Autumn Term 2025 Wednesday 3rd September 2025 Term
- Early Closure Day Thursday 11th September 2025 Event
- Inset Day Friday 12th September 2025 Inset Day
- Inset Day Friday 24th October 2025 Inset Day
- Autumn Half Term Holiday Monday 27th October – Friday 31st October 2025 Holiday
- End of Autumn Term Friday 19th December 2025 Term
- School reopens for Spring Term 2026 Monday 5th January 2026 Term
- Spring Half Term Holiday Monday 16th February – Friday 20th February 2026 Holiday
- End of Spring Term Friday 27th March 2026 Term
- School reopens for Summer Term 2026 Monday 13th April 2026 Term
- May Day Bank Holiday Monday 4th May 2026 Holiday
- Summer Half Term Holiday Monday 25th May – Friday 29th May 2026 Holiday
- End of Summer Term Friday 17th July 2026 Term
- Christmas Holiday (approx. two-week break between Autumn and Spring terms) Monday 22nd December 2025 – Friday 2nd January 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday (two-week break between Spring and Summer terms) Monday 30th March 2026 – Friday 10th April 2026 Holiday
- Summer Holiday (six-week break) Monday 20th July 2026 – Early September 2026 Holiday
- New Year's Day Bank Holiday Thursday 1st January 2026 Holiday
- Good Friday Friday 3rd April 2026 Event
- Easter Monday Monday 6th April 2026 Holiday
- Early May Bank Holiday Monday 4th May 2026 Holiday
- Spring Bank Holiday Monday 25th May 2026 Holiday
- Summer Bank Holiday Monday 31st August 2026 Holiday
- Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 2025 Holiday
- Boxing Day Friday 26th December 2025 Event
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare St Cecilia's RC High School with Lancashire County Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 46.2 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school Lancashire County Council England
Attendance 28.1% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Lancashire County Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 92% 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 Cecilia's RC 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 Cecilia's RC 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.