Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 143803 · LAESTAB 871/4800 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against South East and Slough
Track: South East's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = South East median; S = Slough median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
South East 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 East median, red = in South East's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with academies' accounts (AAR), same academic year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 4: Attainment 8 average score. Ranked among 3,280 secondaries in England, 2024/25. 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.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against South East: South East state secondaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against South East (10 = top 10%).
Arrows: change in South East percentile points since 2021/22.
Pupils counted: Attainment 8 143 pupils (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths 143 pupils (2024/25) · EBacc point score 143 pupils (2024/25) · Progress 8 152 pupils (2023/24) · A level points per entry 87 pupils (2024/25).
Progress 8: Not published for 2024/25: Progress 8 returns with 2026/27 results.
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: May 2026 Report card, lowest Expected · May 2022 Good · Dec 2018 Remains Good · Jan 2016 Good · Oct 2013 Requires improvement · Jan 2012 Satisfactory · Dec 2008 Good · Feb 2006 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 (800 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 64.8, leadership 7, teaching assistants 11.08, support staff incl. TAs 28.13, whole workforce 92.93 (99 people), 66 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
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
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).
All sources and licences (8)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, 16-19 destination measures, academic year
- Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
- Department for Education, Key stage 4 destination measures, academic year
- 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
Ranked 937 of 3,280 secondaries in England · top 29%
A-level results
#322 of 394 South East sixth forms, state and independent, 2024/25
Independent and selective (grammar) schools choose their pupils, so high results partly reflect who gets in, not only teaching. Some independent schools don't publish results.
Against South EastArrows: South East rank change since 2021/22
Show exam results by year
No exams 2019/20–21
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 183 | 132 |
| 2nd | 72 | 15 |
| 3rd | 72 | 6 |
Last distance offered: London only
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 · 2006–2026
- InclusionExpected
- AchievementExpected
- Curriculum and teachingExpected
- Attendance and behaviourStrong
- Leadership and governanceExpected
- Personal development and wellbeingExpected
- Post-16 provisionExpected
- SafeguardingMet
- 2006Goodas predecessor
- 2008Goodas predecessor
- 2012Satisfactoryas predecessor
- 2013Requires improvementas predecessor
- 2016Goodas predecessor
- 2018Remains Good
- 2022Good
- 2026Lowest Expected
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 50.1%Boys 49.9%
123.5% full · 800 places · 211 in sixth form
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 57.8
- Leadership 7
- Teaching assistants 11.1
- Other support 17
Teachers 64.8 FTE · Whole workforce 92.9 · 99 people
Financials · 2024/25
- −£546,000revenue reserve
- +£90,000in-year balance
Grants £7,146 · self-generated £259 · premises £394 per pupil
Multi-academy trust: ST THOMAS CATHOLIC ACADEMIES TRUST (17 academies) · trust reserve £5,618,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it
Destinations · 2023/24 leavers
After Year 11
152 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional
After sixth form (16–18)
77 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional