St Patrick's RC High School

Local authority school · ages 11–16 · Roman Catholic · no sixth form

Above average on every headline measure — 1st of 15 for average grade in Salford.

Manchester · Salford · one of 16 state secondaries

Summary

St Patrick's RC High School sits 1st of 15 state secondaries in Salford for average GCSE grade. 78.7% of its pupils passed both English and maths, against 61.2% across Salford. 55.7% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject it is furthest clear of Salford in combined science and Spanish, with nothing measurably behind. Ofsted: Inspected in November 2025 under the current report card, which grades 7 areas separately and gives no overall word.

It is a school of 912 pupils, taking ages 11 to 16. 21.4% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, and 14.2% are on SEN support with a further 2.7% holding an education, health and care plan. 76% were entered for the full EBacc, more than the 33.6% entered across Salford, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push, and 20.2% took the separate sciences rather than combined. 14% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, better than the 24.4% across Salford, and 81.4% of its leavers went on to further education.

Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against Salford, 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·Salford

Inspection

Graded by area

Last inspected November 2025

Achievement: Strong standard
Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard
Inclusion: Strong standard
Leadership and management: Strong standard
Personal development: Strong standard
Safeguarding: Met

November 2025 Report card inspection Graded by area
June 2022 Full inspection Good

Ofsted’s current report card grades each area separately and gives no overall word.

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Attendance

14% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, against 24% across Salford and 21% nationally. The comparators are the median secondary school, not an average.

GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25

Attainment

79%

Passed English & maths grade 4+, an old grade C

well above average

Salford 61% · England 65%

56%

Strong pass in both grade 5+, a strong pass

well above average

Salford 40% · England 45%

53.8

Average grade across 8 Attainment 8, out of 90

above average

Salford 42.9 · England 46.1

76%

Entered for the EBacc the academic core of subjects

well above average

Salford 34% · England 41%

After Year 11

81% stayed in education, 3% 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

this school Salford England at grade 4

Subject Share at grade 4 or above Since 2021/22

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

56 New Lane
Eccles
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M30 7JJ

01619 212300 stpatricksrchigh.co.uk

Executive Principal: Mrs Alison Byrne
Pupils: 912 of 900 places
Spare places: None
Free school meals: 21%
SEND: 14% on SEN support, 3% with an EHC plan
Separate sciences: 20% of the year
Progress 8: Not published · last +0.07 in 2023/24

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