St Bernard's High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Not published
From Southend-on-Sea City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Bernard's High School is a secondary school in Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 March 2023. Southend-on-Sea has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Bernard's High School 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 | Not published |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Year 7 2026 entry had 184 first-choice applications for 175 offers; 143 offers went to first-choice families, and 41 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- For Year 7 2026, 141 of the 474 applications came from families living outside Southend-on-Sea, and 45 offers went to them.
- 2024/25 GCSE: 59% got grade 5 or above in English and maths (England 45%), the 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Southend-on-Sea.
- A level 2024/25: average grade C (England B-); progress from GCSE to A level was below average.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southend-on-Sea schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Milton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 7JS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea
- Pupils on roll
- 1,001 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 March 2023
Strengths
- “St Bernard’s High School is a welcoming, inclusive school.”
- “Leaders have high expectations of pupils in terms of learning and behaviour.”
- “Pupils live up to these expectations.”
To improve
- “However, a minority of teachers do not consistently make the necessary adaptations to their teaching or check that pupils with SEND are keeping up with learning.”
- “As a result, occasionally, some pupils with SEND fail to complete work well or have gaps in their learning.”
- “However, leaders have been too slow in introducing the strategies that will enable these pupils to catch up swiftly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 May 2023 (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) | 54.9 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C | B- |
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: 184 first-preference applications, 175 offers in total, 143 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 Southend-on-Sea.
- Chase High School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Southend High School for Boys 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Westcliff High School for Boys Academy 1.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Westcliff High School for Girls 1.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Thomas More High School 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Cecil Jones Academy 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Southend High School for Girls 2.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Southchurch High School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published