Hagley Catholic High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Hagley, Worcestershire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
7.959 miles
Published by Worcestershire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hagley Catholic High School is a secondary school in Hagley, Worcestershire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 March 2025. Worcestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2026 entry.
Hagley Catholic 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 | 7.959 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
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026, under the criterion for non-Catholic children at a feeder school, lived 7.959 miles away, nearer than in 2025.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 180 first-choice applications for 185 offers; 168 offers went to first-choice families and 12 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2026, 303 of the 414 applications (73%) for Year 7 came from families living outside Worcestershire.
- GCSE English and maths grade 5 or above: 52% in 2024/25 (England 45%), 2nd 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
- Brake Lane, Hagley, DY8 2XL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Worcestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,088 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 March 2025
Strengths
- “The school’s warm, caring ethos underpins all aspects of school life.”
- “The school very effectively balances support for pupils’ personal development, with their academic success.”
- “The school has high expectations of all pupils.”
To improve
- “However, teachers do not consistently gather information about how well the class is learning the planned work and use it to adapt the learning activities.”
- “As a result, at times pupils struggle with activities that are too hard.”
- “However, the school does not yet have the processes in place to check if their reading strategies are making a difference.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 March 2025 (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) | 52% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 50.3 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | 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: 180 first-preference applications, 185 offers in total, 168 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.
- Haybridge High School and Sixth Form 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Wolverley CofE Secondary School 4.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- King Charles I School 4.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Waseley Hills High School 5.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Baxter College 5.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- North Bromsgrove High School 7.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- The Stourport High School and Sixth Form College 7.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The Bewdley School 7.5 mi Not judged Last distance published