Graded inspection · Sep 2022 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in BuckinghamshireSelective
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 |
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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 entry865 applications · 184 places offered · 259 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 4.7; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2025 4.0; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2024 4.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
- 2023 4.4; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2022 4.5; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
- 2021 6.2; Buckinghamshire median median 4.0
- 2020 4.8; Buckinghamshire median median 3.4
- 2019 4.1; Buckinghamshire median median 3.3
- 2018 5.0; Buckinghamshire median median 3.6
- 2017 4.8; Buckinghamshire median median 3.2
- 2016 4.7; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2015 4.2; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
- 2014 4.1; 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.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 184 | 865 | 4.7 | 259 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2025 | 180 | 715 | 4.0 | 213 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2024 | 181 | 770 | 4.3 | 247 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2023 | 179 | 793 | 4.4 | 211 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2022 | 175 | 793 | 4.5 | 206 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2021 | 177 | 1,097 | 6.2 | 304 | 1.72 |
| Sep 2020 | 173 | 821 | 4.8 | 189 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2019 | 178 | 736 | 4.1 | 210 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2018 | 148 | 738 | 5.0 | 222 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2017 | 151 | 730 | 4.8 | 218 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2016 | 160 | 754 | 4.7 | 210 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2015 | 148 | 622 | 4.2 | 196 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2014 | 146 | 597 | 4.1 | 164 | 1.12 |
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.) | 186 | 73.1 | 96% | 100% | – |
| 2024/25 | 178 | 72.3 | 98% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 182 | 73.2 | 95% | 99% | +0.84 |
| 2022/23 | 183 | 72.9 | 99% | 100% | +0.83 |
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
- John Hampden Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20224.7applications per place 73.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.3 km · BuckinghamshireOutstanding20243.8applications per place 74.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.6 km · Buckinghamshire20264.0applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · BuckinghamshireRemains Good20243.1applications per place 44.3Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · BuckinghamshireSome aspects not as strong20242.7applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · BuckinghamshireImproved significantly20253.9applications per place 71.9Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.1 km · BuckinghamshireRemains Good20222.9applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · BuckinghamshireSerious weaknesses Inadequate20220.8applications per place 35.1Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · BuckinghamshireOutstanding20244.9applications per place 76.7Attainment 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
- 136771 · 825/4009
- Trust
- John Hampden Grammar School
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 1,150 pupils · 1,281 on roll
- Free school meals
- 5.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2011
- Replaced
- John Hampden Grammar School (URN 110485)
- Address
- Marlow Hill, High Wycombe, HP11 1SZ
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources