Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in GloucestershireSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | 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 entry731 applications · 147 places offered · 158 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 5.0; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
- 2025 4.9; Gloucestershire median median 2.2
- 2024 4.9; Gloucestershire median median 2.2
- 2023 5.4; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
- 2022 4.5; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
- 2021 9.2; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
- 2020 4.6; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- 2019 5.0; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- 2018 6.0; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- 2017 3.3; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- 2016 3.4; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
- 2015 2.9; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
- 2014 4.0; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- This school
- Gloucestershire 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.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 147 | 731 | 5.0 | 158 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2025 | 144 | 709 | 4.9 | 164 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2024 | 147 | 722 | 4.9 | 181 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2023 | 123 | 660 | 5.4 | 137 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2022 | 147 | 668 | 4.5 | 169 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2021 | 150 | 1,386 | 9.2 | 398 | 2.65 |
| Sep 2020 | 146 | 665 | 4.6 | 168 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2019 | 148 | 741 | 5.0 | 203 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2018 | 76 | 452 | 6.0 | 76 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 111 | 371 | 3.3 | 119 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2016 | 104 | 358 | 3.4 | 124 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2015 | 110 | 316 | 2.9 | 103 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2014 | 110 | 434 | 4.0 | 178 | 1.62 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 151 | 73.3 | 95% | 99% | – |
| 2024/25 | 152 | 72.7 | 98% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 152 | 71.1 | 95% | 98% | +0.60 |
| 2022/23 | 151 | 70.3 | 96% | 100% | +0.57 |
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
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Crypt SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20245.0applications per place 73.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.9 km · Gloucestershire20263.8applications per place 67.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.3 km · Gloucestershire20263.2applications per place 40.9Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · GloucestershireGood20232.5applications per place 44.5Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · GloucestershireGraded · no overall grade20241.5applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · GloucestershireStandards maintained20252.1applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · GloucestershireNot yet inspected3.8applications per place 43.4Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · Gloucestershire20263.5applications per place 74.8Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.9 km · Gloucestershire20252.8applications per place 75.2Attainment 8 Selective
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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
- 136578 · 916/5404
- Trust
- The Crypt School
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 800 pupils · 1,100 on roll
- Free school meals
- 3.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- The Crypt School (URN 115755)
- Address
- Podsmead Road, Gloucester, GL2 5AE
- Local authority
- Gloucestershire · Gloucester
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources