St Benedict's Catholic High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Alcester, Warwickshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
8.763 miles
Published by Warwickshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Benedict's Catholic High School is a secondary school in Alcester, Warwickshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 March 2024. Warwickshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2017 to 2026 entry.
St Benedict's 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 | 8.763 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 |
| Year 7 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Year 7 2026 the last child offered a place lived 8.763 miles away, the 8th longest of 32 Warwickshire secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance.
- Year 7 2026 had 58 first-choice applications for 82 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 24 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 48% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 46 (England 46).
- The A level average grade in 2024/25 was C- (England B-), with progress from GCSE to A level well below average.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warwickshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Kinwarton Road, Alcester, B49 6PX
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Warwickshire
- Pupils on roll
- 455 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 12 March 2024
Strengths
- “St Benedict’s Catholic High School’s leaders and pupils share the same high aspirations.”
- “Pupils understand and follow the values of ‘learning, integrity, faith and excellence’.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are warm and respectful.”
To improve
- “However, the school has not fully evaluated precisely which actions are the most effective in addressing shortcomings.”
- “For example, the school does not have a good enough understanding of why the progress of disadvantaged pupils is not as strong as it should be.”
- “Similarly, concerns around some pupils’ attendance are not as precisely understood as they could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2024 (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) | 48% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 46 | 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: 58 first-preference applications, 82 offers in total, 58 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 Warwickshire.
- Alcester Grammar School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Alcester Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Studley High School 3.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Henley In Arden School 6.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stratford Girls' Grammar School 6.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Stratford Upon Avon School 6.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- King Edward VI School 7.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Myton School 13.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
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