St Joseph's College

1. Catholic looked after — Category 1: Baptised Catholic children who are Looked After/Previously Looked After
2. Catholic sibling — Category 2: Baptised Catholic children with a sibling at the school
3. Catholic staff — Category 3: Baptised Catholic children of school staff
4. Catholic other — Category 4: Other Baptised Catholic children, capped at 125 places total across categories 1-4
5. Non catholic looked after — Category 5: Non-Catholic children who are Looked After/Previously Looked After
6. Christian sibling — Category 6: Other Christian children with a sibling at the school
7. Christian staff — Category 7: Other Christian children of school staff
8. Christian other — Category 8: Other Christian children, capped at 18 places total across categories 5-8
9. Other faith sibling — Category 9: Non-Christian children with a sibling at the school
10. Other faith staff — Category 10: Non-Christian children of school staff
11. Other faith other — Category 11: All other non-Christian/no-faith children, capped together with categories 5 and 9-10

St Joseph's College's entrance test has two multiple-choice, age-standardised papers: 1. Verbal Reasoning — logical thinking, use of English language and vocabulary. 2. Non-Verbal Reasoning — interpreting visual information, pattern logic and problem-solving. No English or maths curriculum papers. A standardised score around the published threshold (historically 105) meets the academic standard; the school's oversubscription criteria (including Catholic faith categories) then determine priority for its 150 Year 7 grammar places. Test in September of Year 6, results in October.

Of the 188-student 2019/20 leaver cohort, sustaining a higher-education destination the following year. This is the last cohort the Department for Education published with an Oxbridge/Russell Group breakdown — these categories were discontinued as official accountability measures after this release, so a more recent figure does not exist.

Median price for the school's electoral ward, year ending March 2023 — a neighbourhood-level indicator, not the school's actual admissions catchment (catchments are often smaller than a ward or span parts of several).