St Paul's Catholic College

St Paul's Catholic College is a mixed-sex Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form located in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England.[1]

St Paul's Catholic College
Address
Jane Murray Way

Burgess Hill
,
West Sussex
,
RH15 8GA

England
Coordinates50°57′59″N 0°09′16″W
Information
TypeAcademy
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic
Established1963
FounderDiocese of Southwark
Local authorityWest Sussex
TrustBosco Catholic Education Trust
Department for Education URN148753 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherMr Rob Carter
Staff106 (approx.)
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1,110 (approx.)
Websitehttp://www.stpaulscatholiccollege.co.uk/

Overview
St Paul's Catholic College entrance

The college first opened on 9 September 1963 as a modern secondary school serving the Mid-Sussex area. It was originally situated in the nearby town of Haywards Heath, but relocated to its current site at the northwestern edge of Burgess Hill in September 2004. St Pauls Catholic College in Burgess Hill took place in 2013–2014 to mark 50 years since the school opened.

In April 2013 the college was appointed as a National Teaching School and National Support School by the Department for Education. 350 schools nationally have currently taken on this leadership role. This is a responsibility to lead teacher training, professional development, research and development, leadership, raising achievement and school to school support. There is a clear commitment to support schools in an Ofsted category or requiring improvement. This is led through the Inspire Teaching School Alliance Welcome | Inspire Teaching School Alliance. St. Paul's is also a Sports College and has Leading Edge status as a high performing secondary school.

The college accepts children from the age of eleven through to eighteen, and accommodates approximately 1000 students. There were five houses: Corinth, Valletta, Damascus, Lystra and Rome, as the school expands student numbers to 1,050 students by 2014. Each form is a place significant to St. Paul's life. The school has played a role in advancing the role of e-learning in the classroom, as well as being a fair-trade school, encouraging student support for good causes, both locally and worldwide.

Results have been very strong at GCSE and A-level and the college has been named consistently within the highest performing secondary schools nationally.[2] There is a strong belief that education should be about developing the "whole person" by looking to develop student confidence, happiness, faith and academic success.[3]

St Paul's was first graded as 'outstanding' by Ofsted in 2007. Subsequently, further reports in 2008 and 2011 confirm that St Paul's remains an 'outstanding school'.[4] It was also graded as 'outstanding' in the Section 48 inspection by the diocese which evaluates the quality of Catholic education and the spiritual life of the school most recently in 2014.[5]

Previously a voluntary aided school administered by West Sussex County Council, in January 2022 St Paul's Catholic College converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Bosco Catholic Education Trust,[6] and continues to be under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton.

References
  1. "St Pauls Catholic College in Burgess Hill". St Paul's Catholic College.
  2. "BBC News - School league tables". BBC News.
  3. "School search". The Good Schools Guide. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012.
  4. enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk, Ofsted Communications Team (31 December 2021). "Find an inspection report and registered childcare". reports.ofsted.gov.uk.
  5. "Diocese of Arundel and Brighton Section 23 and Section 48 Reports".
  6. "BOSCO CET". www.boscocet.org.uk.

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