St John Fisher Catholic High School

Term dates

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

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

See Peterborough'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, 149 families put this school as their first choice, and 136 places were offered. 102 of the families who put it first got a place (68%). 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

Short (ungraded) inspection, 14 June 2023: School remains Good. It was inspected as St John Fisher Catholic High School, before the school changed (for example, became an academy).

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

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

Roman Catholic

Diocese

Diocese of East Anglia

Academy trust

ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

Phone

01733343646

Address

Park Lane, Peterborough, PE1 5JN

Website

stjohnfisherschool.org.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports