Oona Stannard, chief executive of the Catholic Education Service, has recently claimed that Catholic schools are ethnically diverse and around 30 per cent, on average, are non-Catholic. I have requested the data on which these assertions are based (of course, looked at another way, the claim is that 70% of the students are Catholic). The following figures show that Catholic Schools in Leicester are divisive both by religion and by race.
| RELIGION: | Christian | Hindu | Muslim | Other Religion | No Religion | Not Recorded | Unclassified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RC Primaries | |||||||
| Christ the King RC | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Holy Cross RC | 86 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| Sacred Heart RC | 85 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| St Joseph RC | 92 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| St Patrick’s RC | 92 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| St Thomas Moore RC | 94 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All RC Primaries | 92 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| All Leicester Primaries | 26 | 14 | 25 | 6 | 20 | 9 | 1 |
| RC Secondaries | |||||||
| English Martyrs RC | 93 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| St Paul’s RC | 92 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| All RC Secondaries | 93 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| All Leicester Secondaries | 32 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 8 |
| RACE: | Asian | Black | Mixed | White | Other | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RC Primaries | ||||||
| Christ the King RC | 2 | 4 | 8 | 85 | 1 | 1 |
| Holy Cross RC | 0 | 8 | 11 | 79 | 1 | 0 |
| Sacred Heart RC | 17 | 22 | 21 | 36 | 2 | 3 |
| St Joseph RC | 6 | 2 | 7 | 82 | 1 | 1 |
| St Patrick’s RC | 24 | 12 | 13 | 49 | 1 | 0 |
| St Thomas Moore RC | 9 | 1 | 8 | 81 | 1 | 0 |
| All RC Primaries | 10 | 8 | 11 | 69 | 1 | 1 |
| All Leicester Primaries | 37 | 8 | 6 | 46 | 1 | 0 |
| RC Secondaries | ||||||
| English Martyrs RC | 4 | 3 | 7 | 81 | 0 | 4 |
| St Paul’s RC | 11 | 8 | 8 | 67 | 1 | 5 |
| All RC Secondaries | 8 | 6 | 7 | 74 | 1 | 5 |
| All Leicester Secondaries | 39 | 6 | 5 | 48 | 1 | 1 |
Admission policies that I have had a sight of assert quite openly that the schools are primarily to serve the Catholic communities, and put being a baptised Catholic at the top of their criteria for admission when oversubscribed. These are schools that are paid for out of taxes.