UK Schools
Sacred Heart Catholic High School
Sacred Heart Catholic High School is a girls' secondary academy in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle City Council, teaching 1,424 pupils aged 11 to 18. Ofsted graded quality of education as Outstanding at its most recent inspection in December 2024. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 52.1 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 1 September 2025 to 5 January 2026.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Sacred Heart 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 Sacred Heart Catholic High School.
- 1 School reopens / Start of Autumn Term
- 17 INSET Day
- 27–31 Autumn Half Term Holiday
- 22–31 Christmas Holiday
- 1–2 Christmas Holiday
- 5 Start of Spring Term
- 16–20 Spring Half Term Holiday
- 3–17 Easter Holiday
- 6 Bank Holiday (Easter Monday)
- 4 Early May Bank Holiday
- 25–29 Summer Half Term Holiday / Spring Bank Holiday Week
- 3 INSET Day
- 20–31 Summer Holiday
- 1–31 Summer Holiday
- 1 School reopens for new academic year (2026-2027)
Key dates (2025–2026)
- School reopens / Start of Autumn Term Sep 1, 2025 Term
- INSET Day Oct 17, 2025 Inset Day
- Autumn Half Term Holiday Oct 27-31, 2025 Holiday
- Christmas Holiday Dec 22, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 Holiday
- Start of Spring Term Jan 5, 2026 Term
- Spring Half Term Holiday Feb 16-20, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday Apr 3-17, 2026 Holiday
- Bank Holiday (Easter Monday) Apr 6, 2026 Holiday
- Early May Bank Holiday May 4, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Half Term Holiday / Spring Bank Holiday Week May 25-29, 2026 Holiday
- INSET Day Jul 3, 2026 Inset Day
- Summer Holiday Jul 20-Aug 31, 2026 Holiday
- School reopens for new academic year (2026-2027) Sep 1, 2026 Event
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Sacred Heart Catholic High School with Newcastle City Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 52.1 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
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16 to 18 (A level & sixth form) 35.4 A level average point score
Results for students finishing post-16 study.
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Attendance 26.4% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
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What pupils do after GCSEs 96% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
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What students do after 16 to 18 study 90% In education, apprenticeship or work
Destinations the year after finishing post-16 study.
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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 Sacred Heart 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 Sacred Heart 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.