Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 113861 · LAESTAB 838/4033 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against South West and Dorset
Track: South West's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = South West median; D = Dorset median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
South West state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the South West median, red = in South West's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with maintained schools' accounts (CFR), same financial year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 4: Attainment 8 average score. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Against South West: South West state secondaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against South West (10 = top 10%).
Progress 8: Not published for 2024/25: Progress 8 returns with 2026/27 results. national-rank: Not ranked for 2024/25: no published figure for this school.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementReport cardUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Jun 2026 Report card, lowest Expected · Feb 2022 Good · Dec 2018 Remains Good · Apr 2015 Good · May 2013 Requires improvement · Jun 2011 Satisfactory · Oct 2007 Good. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.
Report-card areas graded Exceptional or Strong standard, and Needs attention or Urgent improvement, out of the areas graded; Expected standard counts as neither. Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (256 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 16, leadership 2.6, teaching assistants 16.68, support staff incl. TAs 24.58, whole workforce 40.58 (52 people), 20 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Maintained school accounts (CFR) · April 2025 to March 2026.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
Destinations
Students who finished the stage in the cohort year, followed through the next year: sustained = at least six months in education, an apprenticeship or employment
Source: DfE destination measures.
Why some figures are missing
Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).
Destinations: Destinations: not published for this school.
All sources and licences (5)
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Consistent Financial Reporting
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
England rank: Not ranked for 2024/25: no published figure for this school
Against South West
Getting in
No admissions figures or last distance offered published
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
Links open in a new tab. Close Knit counts the click, never what you do there.
Inspections · 2007–2026
- InclusionStrong
- AchievementExpected
- Curriculum and teachingExpected
- Attendance and behaviourExpected
- Leadership and governanceExpected
- Personal development and wellbeingStrong
- SafeguardingMet
- 2007Good
- 2011Satisfactory
- 2013Requires improvement
- 2015Good
- 2018Remains Good
- 2022Good
- 2026Lowest Expected
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 52.5%Boys 47.5%
93.8% full · 256 places
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 13.4
- Leadership 2.6
- Teaching assistants 16.7
- Other support 7.9
Teachers 16 FTE · Whole workforce 40.6 · 52 people
Financials · 2025/26
- −£40,523revenue reserve
- −£132,922in-year balance
Grants £9,220 · self-generated £237 · premises £513 per pupil
Destinations
Not published for this school