St Mary's Catholic Academy

St Walburga's Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY3 7EQ

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About this school

St Mary's Catholic Academy is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in Blackpool, Lancashire. The school has 1,184 pupils enrolled. Ofsted: Good (graded inspection, 10 May 2022). Last inspected 10 May 2022. The Headteacher is Simon Eccles. The school is administered by Blackpool local authority. It belongs to THE BLESSED EDWARD BAMBER CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST. The school has a Roman Catholic religious character. It opened in 1 September 2014.

School details

Headteacher

Simon Eccles

Trust

THE BLESSED EDWARD BAMBER CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

Local authority

Blackpool

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

Roman Catholic

URN

141257

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at St Mary's Catholic Academy are handled by the school or the local authority (Blackpool). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

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