Secondary
Holy Cross Catholic High School
Myles Standish Way, Chorley, PR7 3LS
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 976 of 975 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.0
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Religious character
- Yes
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Liverpool
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 57.9
- All staff (FTE)
- 78.8
- Pupils per adult
- 12.5
- Pupils
- 984
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected September 2022
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
67%
20 points above the Chorley average (47% across 5 schools)
55.0
6.2 above the Chorley average (48.8 across 5 schools)
2nd of 5 by our score, among the secondary schools in Chorley we can score - 6 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 55 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.92 |
| Entered the EBacc | 37% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 79% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 67% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 71% |
| 22/23 | 63% |
| 23/24 | 66% |
| 24/25 | 67% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.52 |
| 22/23 | +0.34 |
| 23/24 | +0.75 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 57.1 |
| 22/23 | 52.3 |
| 23/24 | 56.9 |
| 24/25 | 55.0 |
Myles Standish Way, Chorley, PR7 3LS
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Lancashire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Greg Lindley
- Address
- Myles Standish Way, Chorley, PR7 3LS
- Telephone
- 01257262093