St Paul's Catholic College

St Paul's Catholic College is a mixed-sex Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form located in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England.^[1]

St Paul's Catholic College
Address
Jane Murray Way Burgess Hill , West Sussex , RH15 8GA England
Coordinates	50°57′59″N 0°09′16″W
Information
Type	Academy
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	9 September 1963
Founder	Roman Catholic Diocese of Southwark
Local authority	West Sussex
Trust	Bosco Catholic Education Trust
Department for Education URN	148753 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Rob Carter
Staff	106 (approx.)
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1,150 (approx.)
Website	http://www.stpaulscatholiccollege.co.uk/

History

St Paul's Catholic College entrance

The College first opened on 9 September 1963 as a modern secondary school serving the Mid-Sussex area. It was originally situated in the nearby town of Haywards Heath but relocated to its current site at the northwestern edge of Burgess Hill in September 2004.

In April 2013, the College was appointed as a National Teaching School and National Support School by the Department for Education.

The school had around 1,850 students in 2014.

Previously a voluntary aided school administered by West Sussex County Council, in January 2022 St Paul's Catholic College converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Bosco Catholic Education Trust^[2] and continues to be under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton.

Organisation

The college accepts children from the age of eleven through eighteen. There are six houses in the school: Athens, Corinth, Valletta, Damascus, Lystra, and Rome.

The school has expanded the role of e-learning in the classroom, as well as being a fair-trade school, encouraging student support for both local and international good causes.

Accolades

Results in GCSE, A-levels, and the college has been named consistently within the highest performing secondary schools nationally.^[3]

St Paul's was graded as 'outstanding' by Ofsted in 2007, 2008, and 2011, 2019 and 2023. ^[4] In 2019, it was graded as 'outstanding' in the Catholic School (Section 48) inspection by the diocese which evaluates the quality of Catholic education and the spiritual life of the school.^[5]