Graded inspection · May 2024 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 entry714 applications · 146 places offered · 257 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 4.9; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2025 4.2; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2024 4.5; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
- 2023 4.0; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2022 4.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
- 2021 5.7; Buckinghamshire median median 4.0
- 2020 4.9; Buckinghamshire median median 3.4
- 2019 5.6; Buckinghamshire median median 3.3
- 2018 5.1; Buckinghamshire median median 3.6
- 2017 5.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.2
- 2016 5.4; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2015 4.2; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
- 2014 4.5; 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 | 146 | 714 | 4.9 | 257 | 1.76 |
| Sep 2025 | 147 | 620 | 4.2 | 220 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2024 | 147 | 657 | 4.5 | 220 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2023 | 150 | 595 | 4.0 | 213 | 1.42 |
| Sep 2022 | 150 | 649 | 4.3 | 240 | 1.60 |
| Sep 2021 | 149 | 855 | 5.7 | 384 | 2.58 |
| Sep 2020 | 149 | 725 | 4.9 | 246 | 1.65 |
| Sep 2019 | 121 | 680 | 5.6 | 258 | 2.13 |
| Sep 2018 | 120 | 613 | 5.1 | 218 | 1.82 |
| Sep 2017 | 120 | 631 | 5.3 | 222 | 1.85 |
| Sep 2016 | 120 | 649 | 5.4 | 225 | 1.88 |
| Sep 2015 | 120 | 509 | 4.2 | 150 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2014 | 119 | 530 | 4.5 | 176 | 1.48 |
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 | 76.7 | 98% | 99% | – |
| 2024/25 | 151 | 72.4 | 97% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 143 | 73.8 | 98% | 99% | +0.56 |
| 2022/23 | 140 | 76.4 | 100% | 100% | +0.71 |
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
- Sir William Borlase's Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.9applications per place 76.7Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.6 km · BuckinghamshireRemains Good20222.9applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · Windsor and Maidenhead20264.1applications per place 47.6Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · BuckinghamshireRemains Good20243.1applications per place 44.3Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · BuckinghamshireOutstanding20224.7applications per place 73.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 5.4 km · BuckinghamshireGood20221.6applications per place 33.9Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · Windsor and MaidenheadRemains Outstanding20243.3applications per place 58.9Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · BuckinghamshireOutstanding20243.8applications per place 74.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 5.7 km · Buckinghamshire20264.0applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 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
- 136781 · 825/4505
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 1,085 pupils · 1,222 on roll
- Free school meals
- 3.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2011
- Replaced
- Sir William Borlase's Grammar School (URN 110515)
- Address
- West Street, Marlow, SL7 2BR
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources