St John Fisher Catholic High School

Term dates

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

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

See Wigan'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.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 201 families put this school as their first choice, and 194 places were offered. 181 of the families who put it first got a place (90%). 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

Report card, 10 March 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.

Inclusion

Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching

Needs attention

Achievement

Needs attention

Attendance and behaviour

Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Strong standard

Leadership and governance

Expected standard

Safeguarding standards: met.

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

Voluntary aided school

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–16

Pupils

998 (capacity 1000)

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

Roman Catholic

Diocese

Archdiocese of Liverpool

Phone

01942510715

Address

Baytree Road, Springfield, Wigan, WN6 7RN

Website

sjfhs.co.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports