Painsley Catholic College

Term dates

Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Staffordshire council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

See Staffordshire's full dates

Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK

How places are given: as a Roman Catholic school, it may give priority to children of that faith, then usually by distance. Check its admissions policy.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 248 families put this school as their first choice, and 246 places were offered. 245 of the families who put it first got a place (99%). More families put it first than there were places.

Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.

Ofsted inspection

Latest graded inspection, 17 May 2022. Overall: Good

Quality of education

Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Sixth form

Outstanding

Read the Ofsted reports

From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.

About and location

Type

Academy

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–18

Pupils

1340 (capacity 1447)

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

Roman Catholic

Diocese

Archdiocese of Birmingham

Academy trust

ST GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST

Phone

01538493777

Address

Station Road, Cheadle, Stoke-on-Trent, ST10 1LH

Website

painsley.co.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports