St Gregory's Catholic High School

Secondary Maintained Warrington 📅 Term dates 2025–2026 🏅 Ofsted: Good 📊 Attainment 8: 51

St Gregory's Catholic High School is a mixed local-authority maintained secondary school in Warrington, Warrington Borough Council, teaching 1,214 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted rated it Good at its last graded inspection in November 2019. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 51 (England 46.1). Term dates and holidays for 2025–2026 are listed below.

Ofsted inspection

The latest published Ofsted judgement for St Gregory's Catholic High School.

Latest inspection
Good Overall effectiveness
Quality of educationGood
Behaviour & attitudesGood
Personal developmentGood
Leadership & managementGood
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 2 · Inspected 26 Nov 2019 · Published 12 Jan 2020
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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 Gregory's Catholic High School.

St Gregory's Catholic High School term dates calendar 2025–2026
Official term-dates calendar · 2025–2026 · source

Key dates (2025–2026)

  • Inset Day Monday 1st September 2025 Inset Day
  • Inset Day Tuesday 2nd September 2025 Inset Day
  • Autumn Term 2025 - First Half Term Wednesday 3rd September 2025 - Friday 24th October 2025 Holiday
  • Autumn Half Term Holiday Monday 27th October 2025 - Friday 31st October 2025 Holiday
  • Autumn Term 2025 - Second Half Term Monday 3rd November 2025 - Friday 19th December 2025 Holiday
  • Inset Day Friday 7th November 2025 Inset Day
  • Christmas Holiday Monday 22nd December 2025 - Friday 2nd January 2026 Holiday
  • Spring Term 2026 - First Half Term Monday 5th January 2026 - Friday 13th February 2026 Holiday
  • Spring Half Term Holiday Monday 16th February 2026 - Friday 20th February 2026 Holiday
  • Spring Term 2026 - Second Half Term Monday 23rd February 2026 - Thursday 2nd April 2026 Holiday
  • Easter Weekend Friday 3rd April 2026 - Monday 6th April 2026 Holiday
  • Easter Holiday Monday 6th April 2026 - Friday 17th April 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Term 2026 - First Half Term Monday 20th April 2026 - Friday 22nd May 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Half Term Holiday (includes Spring Bank Holiday) Monday 25th May 2026 - Friday 29th May 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Term 2026 - Second Half Term Monday 1st June 2026 - Friday 17th July 2026 Holiday
  • Inset Day Monday 20th July 2026 Inset Day
  • Inset Day Tuesday 21st July 2026 Inset Day
  • Summer Holiday Monday 20th July 2026 - Early September 2026 Holiday
  • Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 2025 Holiday
  • Boxing Day Friday 26th December 2025 Event
  • New Year's Day Thursday 1st January 2026 Event
  • 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

Exam results & performance

DfE performance tables Official results, 2024–2025 GOV.UK ↗
51 Attainment 8 England 46.1 Top 22%
52.8% Grade 5+ English & maths England 45.4% Top 24%
14.7% Persistent absence England 17.8%

The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare St Gregory's Catholic High School with Warrington Borough Council and England.

Key stage 4 (GCSE) 51 Attainment 8 score

Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.

This school Warrington Borough Council England

Attainment 8 score · Average across 8 GCSEs, out of 90 51
Warrington Borough Council 48.5 England 46.1 +4.9 vs England
Grade 5+ in English & maths · A strong pass 52.8%
Warrington Borough Council 48% England 45.4% +7.4 vs England
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils 38.8
Warrington Borough Council 35.2 England 34.9 +3.9 vs England
Disadvantage gap · Attainment 8 points; smaller is better 14.7
Warrington Borough Council 17.1 England 15.5 -0.8 vs England
Disadvantaged pupils in the year group · Context for the scores above 17%
Warrington Borough Council 21.9% England 28.2%
Pupils in the year group · Small cohorts swing wildly 235
Attendance 14.7% Persistently absent pupils

Absence across the whole school year.

This school Warrington Borough Council England

Persistently absent pupils · Missed 10%+ of sessions; lower is better 14.7%
Warrington Borough Council 14.5% England 17.8% -3.1 vs England
Overall absence · Lower is better 6.2%
Warrington Borough Council 6.1% England 6.8% -0.6 vs England
What pupils do after GCSEs 97% In education, apprenticeship or work

Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.

This school Warrington Borough Council England

In education, apprenticeship or work 97%
Warrington Borough Council 93% England 92% +5 vs England
Same, for disadvantaged pupils 92%
Warrington Borough Council 81% England 83% +9 vs 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 Gregory'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 catchment Other secondary schools

Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to St Gregory'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.