St Mary's Catholic High School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy

Page signposts to the Derbyshire Local Offer service, which supports children and young people aged 0-25 with SEND.

“The Derbyshire Local Offer is in place to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), as well as their parents and carers.”

School describes itself as fully inclusive, aiming to meet the needs of all pupils through Quality First Teaching so pupils make excellent progress regardless of ability or background.

“St Mary’s Catholic High School is a fully inclusive school where our aim is to ensure that the needs of all pupils are met in order to enable them to reach their full potential. Quality First Teaching is at the heart of this aim.”

School has a dedicated Wellbeing Team including an Early Help Co-ordinator, Family Resource Worker, Counsellor, and Early Help & Pupil Welfare Assistant

“We have established a Wellbeing Team based within the school. This consists of an Early Help Co-ordinator and Family Resource Worker, Counsellor, Early Help & Pupil Welfare Assistant.”

School describes a tiered pastoral/wellbeing system: whole-school ethos and pastoral system support all pupils, targeted Wellbeing Team support for emerging needs, and specialist external agencies for complex needs.

“St. Mary’s Catholic High School has a tiered approach to supporting the Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing of our pupils. Our whole school mission and ethos, policies, pastoral system and best practice support positive Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing of all children. Where children show emerging needs, they are supported by targeted provision available in school through the Wellbeing Team (Early Help Provision). Pupils with more complex needs will supported by the help of specialist external agencies.”

School offers a wide variety of curricular and extracurricular opportunities supporting personal development

“A wide variety of curricular and extracurricular opportunities enrich pupils’ educational experience and support personal development.”

High-quality careers guidance is embedded in the curriculum to support pupils' ambitions

“High-quality careers guidance supports pupils in forming and realizing their own ambitions as they move through the curriculum.”

Catholic ethos school with motto about living, loving and learning in the light of Christ; safeguarding described as central.

“to live, love and learn in the light of Christ.”

School describes its sixth form as academically elite while welcoming students of all faiths and none.

“As an elite academically focused Sixth Form, we welcome students of all faiths and of none.”

The Sixth Form Open Evening is framed as a chance to discover what makes St Mary's a great place for post-16 study.

“Our Sixth Form open evening is an opportunity to come and find out what makes St Mary's a great place for post-16 study.”

School describes its sixth form as hugely popular, attracting talented and committed students and teachers.

“Ours is a hugely popular Sixth Form that attracts the most talented, committed and inspiring students and teachers.”

St Mary's holds a Sixth Form Open Evening on Thursday 12th November 2026, 4.45pm-7.00pm, for prospective post-16 students to learn about the school.

“Our Sixth Form Open Evening will take place on Thursday 12th November 2026 from 4.45pm - 7.00pm.”

St Mary's runs an online sixth-form application process via a linked form.

“We invite students to apply for Sixth Form online. Our online application process is your straightforward path to join our Sixth Form.”

St Mary's Sixth Form places an exceptionally high proportion of students at Russell Group universities each year.

“St Mary's Sixth Form is proud to place an exceptionally high proportion of students in these institutions each year.”

97% of 2023 leavers remained in education

“Remaining in Education 97%”

School is ranked among the top-performing comprehensive schools in Derbyshire and nationally.

“St Mary’s is consistently ranked as one of the top performing comprehensive schools in Derbyshire and indeed the country”

A Level attainment: average grade B (39.88) for Summer 2025

“Average Grade B (39.88)”