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OpenSecondaryURN 136460
St Joseph's College
Academy converter · Stoke-on-Trent · ST4 5NT
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,104
Local authority
Stoke-on-Trent
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, 1,104 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, selective admissions. Free school meals: 8.6%. Religious character: Roman Catholic. Diocese: Diocese is not trustees.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 136460
Location
- Address
- London Road, Trent Vale
- Postcode
- ST4 5NT
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- County
- Staffordshire
- Local authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- District
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent Central
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,104
- Boys / girls
- 530 / 574
- School capacity
- 1,115
- Capacity fill
- 1,104 / 1,115 (99%)
- Free school meals
- 8.6%
- FSM pupils
- 65
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Diocese
- Diocese is not trustees
- Governance
- Academy trust: THE LAETARE CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- THE LAETARE CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Charlotte Slattery
- Telephone
- 01782848008
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-04-29
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 62.0
- Progress 8
- 0.8
- English & maths grade 5+
- 80%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 96%
- EBacc entry
- 95%
- EBacc APS
- 5.9