St Augustine's Catholic School - a Catholic voluntary academy
Academy · ages 11–16 · Roman Catholic · no sixth form
In line with North Yorkshire across the board — 14th of 41 for average grade in North Yorkshire.
Scarborough · North Yorkshire · one of 41 state secondaries
Summary
St Augustine's Catholic School - a Catholic voluntary academy sits 14th of 41 state secondaries in North Yorkshire for average GCSE grade. 73.9% of its pupils passed both English and maths, against 67.4% across North Yorkshire. 51.3% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject it is furthest clear of North Yorkshire in English Literature and Polish, sat by 10% of the year,, and furthest behind in food technology, sat by 29% of the year. Ofsted: Good in May 2016, confirmed in October 2023.
It is an academy of 610 pupils, taking ages 11 to 16. 21.2% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, and 10.1% are on SEN support with a further 4.2% holding an education, health and care plan. 46.2% were entered for the full EBacc, more than the 37.5% entered across North Yorkshire, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push. 19% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, better than the 21.1% across North Yorkshire, and 83% of its leavers went on to further education.
Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against North Yorkshire, and count as ahead or behind only where the gap is wider than the year-to-year swing that entry group would produce.
The school·North Yorkshire
Inspection
Good
Last inspected October 2023
The grade itself is 10 years old.
- October 2023 Ungraded inspection School remains Good
- May 2016 Full inspection Good
An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds rather than replacing it.
That grade was given under the framework Ofsted used before September 2019.
Attendance
19% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, against 21% across North Yorkshire and 21% nationally. The comparators are the median secondary school, not an average.
GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25
Attainment
74%
Passed English & maths grade 4+, an old grade C
in line with average
North Yorkshire 67% · England 65%
51%
Strong pass in both grade 5+, a strong pass
in line with average
North Yorkshire 47% · England 45%
48.9
Average grade across 8 Attainment 8, out of 90
in line with average
North Yorkshire 46.5 · England 46.1
46%
Entered for the EBacc the academic core of subjects
in line with average
North Yorkshire 38% · England 41%
After Year 11
83% stayed in education, 4% started an apprenticeship (2022/23 leavers)
GCSE results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching grade 4 or above · a standard pass, the old grade C
Every bar is on the same 0–100% scale, so subjects can be read against each other as well as against the county and England. A dash means the figure does not exist rather than being zero. The county and England lines cover state-funded schools only, the same schools you can browse here, because independent schools sit outside the Department for Education's subject release and outside this site.
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What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- The EBacc
- A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
- Progress 8
- A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
- Percentage points
- The gap between two percentages. A subject going from 30% to 36% has risen six percentage points, though it has risen by a fifth. We write "pp" to keep the two apart.
- Why some subjects say nothing
- A year group is small. Where a gap is no bigger than the swing a different intake would produce, we say the subjects are level rather than dressing chance as a finding. Two kinds of subject carry no share at all: a vocational award has no 9-to-1 grade to report, and some qualifications are not published on the 9-to-1 scale for a given year group, most often community languages sat outside the school's own timetable.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
School details
Sandybed Lane
Stepney
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO12 5LH
- Headteacher
- Miss Rosa Flanagan
- Trust
- ST Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Academy Trust
- Pupils
- 610 of 563 places
- Spare places
- None
- Free school meals
- 21%
- SEND
- 10% on SEN support, 4% with an EHC plan
- Separate sciences
- 4% of the year
- Progress 8
- Not published · last +0.22 in 2023/24
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