St Mary's Catholic School
- St Mary's Catholic School
Windhill
Bishop's Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM23 2NQ - Head: Paul Neves
- T 01279 654901
- F 01279 653889
- E info@stmarys.net
- W www.stmarys.net
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
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- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Hertfordshire
- Pupils: 1151
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Open days: Late September
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What the school says...
St Marys Catholic School is a high performing non-selective Catholic School. We are a Christian community dedicated to living out the Gospels teachings and values: Students attitudes to learning are exemplary. Endeavour, trust and kindness prevail (Ofsted). We provide an excellent education as our Ofsted report of October 2012 confirmed: There is an uncompromising quest for excellence (Ofsted)
We are committed to raising standards of achievement through increased quality of teaching and learning: Teaching is outstanding. Teachers expert subject knowledge inspires students (Ofsted)
Rapid progress is made for all pupils throughout the school. Achievement is outstanding in all key stages. All groups of students make excellent progress (Ofsted).
We have developed a vibrant outreach programme with our Catholic feeder schools to ensure a smooth transition for pupils from Year Six to Year Seven and extending extra-curricular opportunities and experiences within the community. St Marys has maintained impressive examination results for our all-ability intake. Our core subjects are achieving almost 30«ove the national average. The sixth form is outstanding... due to skilful teaching and highly personalised suppor for students(Ofsted). Thus at A level 100% attained passes at A E with 53% attaining grades at A B grades and 73% at A C. All our leavers went to further education, employment or university. ...Read more
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Special Education Needs
The SEN provision at St Mary's is high quality: SEN staff are well qualified, dedicated and experienced. However, this high quality provision is limited by funding, and most applicants to the school are very able in academic terms. Nov 09.
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
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infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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