St Joseph's Catholic School
Church Road, Salisbury, SP1 1QY
565 pupils · 90% of 625 capacity
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Ages
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
- Free school meals
- 26.4%
Ofsted
Requires improvement (2024) — Rated under the pre-September 2024 inspection system
This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.
Inspected 6 February 2024, published 24 April 2024. Read the full Ofsted report
England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.
Exam results
| Measure | 2024/25 |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 score | 40.4 |
| Grade 5 or above in English & maths (strong pass) | 39.3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English & maths (standard pass) | 61.5% |
| Entering the English Baccalaureate | 9.4% |
Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.
“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.
Will my child get in?
Usually has places available — 0.84 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)
| Entry | Places | 1st preferences | Total preferences | Offers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2026 entry | 102 | 86 | 261 | 102 |
| Sept 2025 entry | 101 | 94 | 257 | 101 |
| Sept 2024 entry | 114 | 109 | 308 | 114 |
| Sept 2023 entry | 106 | 94 | 308 | 106 |
| Sept 2022 entry | 119 | 120 | 301 | 119 |
| Sept 2021 entry | 108 | 79 | 453 | 102 |
| Sept 2020 entry | 125 | 115 | 302 | 125 |
| Sept 2019 entry | 110 | 92 | 292 | 108 |
First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.
Nearby alternatives
- Wyvern St Edmund's Academy 0.2 km · No overall grade (2025)
- South Wilts Grammar School 2 km · Good (2019) · previous system
- Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School 2.4 km · Outstanding (2022) · previous system
- Sarum Academy 4.6 km · Good — confirmed 2023 · previous system
- The Trafalgar School at Downton 10.1 km · Good (2023) · previous system
- The Stonehenge School 10.4 km · Good — confirmed 2022 · previous system
Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.
Data from DfE and Ofsted open data (OGL v3) — sources. School record updated 10 July 2026. Report incorrect data.