St Joseph's Preparatory School achieves excellent academic standards across the curriculum and this is reflected in the results achieved in internal examinations and national PIPS tests co-ordinated by Durham University, preparing our pupils thoroughly for entrance to secondary education. We have chosen to withdraw from state SATs examinations which allows us to focus and improve the performance of the large number of pupils who take entrance tests during Prep 6. In recent years, former pupils have moved to a number of secondary schools nearby including St. Joseph's College. A number of children have received academic and sporting scholarships for Denstone College, Newcastle-under-Lyme School and St Dominic's. Others have moved further afield, for example, to Christ's Hospital and Stonyhurst.
The following table shows the destination schools of our pupils in 2010 and 2011.
|
DESTINATION SCHOOL |
NUMBER OF PUPILS (2010) |
NUMBER OF PUPILS (2011) |
|
St. Joseph’s College Edmund Rice Academy Trust |
11 |
8 |
|
Newcastle under Lyme School |
4 |
2 |
|
Madeley High School |
2 |
1 |
|
Clayton Language & Business College |
1 |
0 |
|
N.C.H.S. The Science College |
1 |
0 |
|
Painsley RC High School |
1 |
0 |
|
St. John Fisher RC High School |
1 |
2 |
|
Wolstanton High School |
1 |
0 |
|
Denstone College |
0 |
0 |
|
Moorside High School |
0 |
0 |
|
St. Peter’s C of E High School |
0 |
0 |
|
Stonyhurst |
0 |
0 |
|
Sandbach Boys |
0 |
1 |
|
Trentham High School |
0 |
1 |
|
Christchurch Middle School |
0 |
1 |
|
The Grove School |
0 |
1 |
