Gunnersbury Catholic School

Boys' Catholic Comprehensive which is usually over-subscribed and admits 184 pupils a year.  Caters primarily for the Borough of Hounslow but pupils come from across West London.

Well above the national average at GCSE level and in 2006 the A Levels results caused the Times to rank it as one of the top 500 state schools in the country. They achieved a 100% pass rate and 85% of students got A-C grades. There are over 1000 pupils with girls admitted to the sixth form.

Ofsted praises outstanding students and excellent teaching at Gunnersbury

Latest Ofsted Report - December 2005

“A successful and improving school where standards of work and behaviour are high”. Ofsted

DfES report

How do you get in?

The admissions policy is determined by the Governors - they use the following criteria.

1. Catholic pupils with priest support - the Governing Body will require a written reference stating that the pupil and/or his family are practising Catholics who attend Mass regularly.

2. Catholic pupils without priest support. Within each of the two categories above, the Governing Body will take account of the following factors in order of significance: (a) sibling connection (b) Catholic ‘involvement’ which emerges in the course of interview. Catholic ‘involvement’ means, for example, that one or both parents or the pupil are involved in parish groups or activities eg. as Readers, Ministers of the Eucharistic, Server etc.

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