Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College
Secondary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 11–16 · Worcester, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.172 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College is a secondary school in Worcester, Worcestershire for ages 11–16 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 23 March 2022. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2026 entry.
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 1.172 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place as a non-Catholic from a Church of England feeder school lived 1.172 miles away, about the same as in 2025.
- Year 7 2026 had 256 first-choice applications for 200 offers; 194 offers went to first-choice families and 62 first-choice families (24%) were not offered a place.
- At 1.3 first choices per offer, Year 7 2026 was the highest of 21 Worcestershire secondary schools.
- In 2024/25, 59% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Worcestershire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Worcestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Timberdine Avenue, Worcester, WR5 2XD
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,036 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 23 March 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils value the warm relationships which they enjoy with staff at this school.”
- “Pupils know that they have trusted adults to whom they can turn.”
- “They celebrate the diversity of their school, and understand that all are valued in their school community.”
To improve
- “This is because sometimes grammatical mistakes in pupils' work can persist.”
- “Although pupils typically take pride in their work and look to complete it to the best of their ability, there can be occasions when pupils do not complete tasks as well as they are able to.”
- “Leaders are working to ensure greater consistency in how pupils' literacy is improved across subjects.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 59% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 53.1 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 256 first-preference applications, 200 offers in total, 194 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Worcestershire.
- Nunnery Wood High School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Christopher Whitehead Language College 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bishop Perowne CofE College 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Tudor Grange Academy Worcester 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dyson Perrins CofE Academy 6.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form Centre 6.2 mi Good
- The Chase 6.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pershore High School 7.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published