St John Plessington Catholic College

About St John Plessington Catholic College

St John Plessington Catholic College’s headline Progress 8 score of -0.35 sits notably below the Wirral local authority average of -0.12 for secondary schools, placing it 14th out of 22 similar schools in the borough. This means that, on average, pupils here achieve nearly a third of a grade less per subject than students across the rest of Wirral, and the school ranks in the bottom 30% nationally on this measure. The picture is particularly stark in maths, where the Progress 8 score drops to -0.58, and in the EBacc subjects, where it falls to -0.57. However, the open element of the Progress 8 score — which covers non-EBacc qualifications — is much closer to the national average at -0.02, suggesting that pupils perform better in vocational or creative subjects than in the core academic ones. The school’s Attainment 8 score of 38.7 and its basics measure — just 48% of pupils achieving a grade 5 or above in English and maths — also trail the national average, though the school does serve a significantly disadvantaged cohort, with 39% of pupils eligible for free school meals.

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