St Bede's Catholic High School, Lytham

Talbot Road, Lytham St Annes, FY8 4JL

817 pupils · 99% of 825 capacity

Phase
Secondary
Type
Voluntary aided school
Ages
11–16
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-selective
Local authority
Lancashire
Free school meals
14.6%

Ofsted

No overall grade (2025)Inspected 2024–2025 — no overall grade under the interim framework

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 11 February 2025, published 16 March 2025. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Measure2024/25
Attainment 8 score48.3
Grade 5 or above in English & maths (strong pass)48.8%
Grade 4 or above in English & maths (standard pass)71.3%
Entering the English Baccalaureate30.5%

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?

Roughly one first choice per place 1.08 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

Applications and offers by entry year
EntryPlaces1st preferencesTotal preferencesOffers
Sept 2026 entry157169448157
Sept 2025 entry161188521161
Sept 2024 entry165180537165
Sept 2023 entry163199567163
Sept 2022 entry162220567162
Sept 2021 entry162190511162
Sept 2020 entry161203528161
Sept 2019 entry165201562165

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

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.