page_title: St Bonaventure's
section_title: Admissions
hierarchical_section_title: St Bonaventure's / Admissions
caption_attribution_description: English: Brown Blazers outside St Antonys
context_page_description: St Bonaventure's, known informally as St Bon's, is a voluntary-aided Catholic secondary school for boys aged 11–16 in Forest Gate, London Borough of Newham, England, with a mixed gender 6th Form for 16–18-year-old students It is under the trustee-ship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brentwood. St Bonaventure's is the oldest boys' school in Newham, having been established in the West Ham area of Essex by the Franciscan order in 1875, following the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. The school was established in its current location in 1877.
  St Bonaventure's has been judged as Outstanding by Ofsted since November 2000. In March 2016, St Bonaventure's was designated as a Teaching School and the headteacher Paul Halliwell was designated as a National Leader of Education by the Department for Education and the National College for Teaching and Leadership.
  The school motto is In Sanctitate Et Doctrina, "In Holiness And Learning". The school also has a mission statement of "Live, Love & Learn in the Presence of the Lord".
context_section_description: The vast majority of pupils are Roman Catholic; ethnic minorities represent the socio-economically deprived local catchment area. It is traditionally heavily oversubscribed for entry to Year 7 and accepts 186 students each year.
caption: Pupils at St Antony's Church, Forest Gate
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