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Dr Challoner's Grammar School

  • 11–18Ages
  • 1,384Pupils
  • SecondaryPhase
  • SelectiveGrammar school
  • BoysPupils
  • Sixth formAges 16–18
  • 136419URN

Chesham Road, Amersham, HP6 5HA · School website

Applications per placeCircle size: applicationsThis school
Latest Ofsted
Graded OutstandingNov 2019
Standards maintainedUngraded inspection · Nov 2024
What Ofsted found
Applications per place · Sept 2026
3.6per place
0.5 above Buckinghamshire median (3.1)
Fewer applicationsMore

This schoolOther secondary schools in BuckinghamshireSelective

669 applications for 185 places · 14th of 36 in Buckinghamshire
Every year since 2014
Attainment 8 · 2025/26 (provisional)
76.2of 90
2nd of 36 in Buckinghamshire
All GCSE results

What did Ofsted find?

Ofsted data to 30 September 2026
Graded OutstandingNov 2019
Standards maintainedUngraded inspection · Nov 2024
The graded inspection, 5 November 2019Ofsted's previous 4-point scale (to August 2024)
AreaOutstandingGoodRequires improvementInadequate
Quality of educationOutstanding
Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
Personal developmentOutstanding
Leadership and managementOutstanding
Sixth form provisionOutstanding

Inspection history

  1. 6 November 2024
    Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained
  2. 5 November 2019
    Graded inspection: Outstanding

Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades

About these grades

Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.

How hard is it to get a place?

DfE · Sept 2026 entry
3.6applications per place, Year 7
0.5 above Buckinghamshire median (3.1) 1.4 above England median (2.2)

669 applications · 185 places offered · 238 named it first

SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.

  1. 2026 3.6; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
  2. 2025 3.5; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
  3. 2024 3.5; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
  4. 2023 3.6; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
  5. 2022 3.6; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
  6. 2021 4.2; Buckinghamshire median median 4.0
  7. 2020 3.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.4
  8. 2019 3.5; Buckinghamshire median median 3.3
  9. 2018 3.5; Buckinghamshire median median 3.6
  10. 2017 3.4; Buckinghamshire median median 3.2
  11. 2016 3.1; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
  12. 2015 2.9; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
  13. 2014 2.9; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
  • This school
  • Buckinghamshire median

Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council

Selective: register for the entrance test with the school first, usually by the summer before (dates vary). Dates

How this is measured

Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.

EntryPlacesApplicationsPer placeFirst preferencesFirst-pref. ratio
Sep 20261856693.62381.29
Sep 20251776243.52781.57
Sep 20241776173.52861.62
Sep 20231826603.62811.54
Sep 20221796363.62971.66
Sep 20211817664.23652.02
Sep 20201815963.32401.33
Sep 20191786153.52891.62
Sep 20181876513.53241.73
Sep 20171816183.42741.51
Sep 20161795553.12511.40
Sep 20151815172.92711.50
Sep 20141795182.92651.48

How did pupils do at GCSE?

DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisional

185 pupils took GCSEs in 2025/26.

Attainment 8 (out of 90)76.22nd of 36 in Buckinghamshire
Grade 5 or above in English and maths99%2nd of 36 in Buckinghamshire
Grade 4 or above in English and maths100%
  • This school
  • Buckinghamshire median
  • England median
Progress 8 (2023/24, the latest published)+1.18
−20 = national average+2
Every year as a table
YearPupilsAttainment 85+ Eng & maths4+ Eng & mathsProgress 8
2025/26 (prov.)18576.299%100%–
2024/2518273.996%98%–
2023/2418677.5100%100%+1.18
2022/2318477.5100%100%+1.19

Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.

Schools nearby

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Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
URN · DfE number
136419 · 825/4504
Trust
Dr Challoner's Grammar School
Admissions policy
Selective
Capacity
1,356 pupils · 1,384 on roll
Free school meals
2.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
Opened
1 January 2011
Replaced
Dr Challoner's Grammar School (URN 110514)
Address
Chesham Road, Amersham, HP6 5HA
Local authority
Buckinghamshire

Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources