St Mary’s Catholic High School / 7 Oct
We are delighted to celebrate the achievements of our Year 13 leavers, who have begun exciting new chapters at universities, in apprenticeships and overseas.
Almost half of the cohort (71 students) progressed to Russell Group universities, up from last year. These destinations include five places each at Durham and UCL, and fifteen at the University of Sheffield, alongside places at LSE, Imperial, Bath and Loughborough.
Seven students have progressed to medicine, with further places in veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nursing, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy. Our students’ creative talents are also reflected in destinations including specialist music and performing arts study.
We are very proud of the nine students who have begun apprenticeships, including five at degree level. Their destinations include engineering, software and policing routes with Laing O’Rourke, Thales and Leicestershire Police, alongside electrical engineering through EcoTech at Sheffield's AMRC. These achievements are particularly encouraging against a national background in which apprenticeship starts among under-19s fell by 5.4% last year.
Our alumni’s ambitions also extend across the Atlantic. Two students have begun studies in the United States, at the highly selective Pomona College in California and Saint Leo University in Florida, where the Catholic and Benedictine heritage offers a connection with our own school’s ethos.
These destinations reflect our students’ hard work and varied talents, supported by their families and staff. We congratulate all of our leavers and wish them every success in the years ahead.
