Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in SuttonSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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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 entry1,441 applications · 322 places offered · 304 named it first
- 2026 4.5; Sutton median median 4.5
- 2025 4.5; Sutton median median 4.5
- 2024 4.7; Sutton median median 4.7
- 2023 5.1; Sutton median median 4.4
- 2022 4.8; Sutton median median 4.1
- 2021 4.6; Sutton median median 5.8
- 2020 4.4; Sutton median median 4.0
- 2019 4.5; Sutton median median 3.9
- 2018 4.5; Sutton median median 3.7
- 2017 4.5; Sutton median median 4.0
- 2016 4.6; Sutton median median 3.6
- 2015 4.4; Sutton median median 4.1
- 2014 4.5; Sutton median median 4.3
- This school
- Sutton median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
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 | 322 | 1,441 | 4.5 | 304 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2025 | 335 | 1,518 | 4.5 | 310 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 | 336 | 1,583 | 4.7 | 312 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2023 | 329 | 1,665 | 5.1 | 366 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2022 | 340 | 1,646 | 4.8 | 387 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2021 | 333 | 1,518 | 4.6 | 289 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2020 | 337 | 1,477 | 4.4 | 297 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2019 | 328 | 1,466 | 4.5 | 316 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2018 | 327 | 1,470 | 4.5 | 334 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2017 | 329 | 1,467 | 4.5 | 340 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2016 | 306 | 1,411 | 4.6 | 366 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2015 | 295 | 1,301 | 4.4 | 329 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2014 | 297 | 1,337 | 4.5 | 274 | 0.92 |
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.) | 315 | 53.1 | 61% | 78% | – |
| 2024/25 | 318 | 50.7 | 57% | 81% | – |
| 2023/24 | 316 | 51.9 | 58% | 80% | +0.05 |
| 2022/23 | 320 | 53.1 | 60% | 81% | +0.11 |
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
- Cheam High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.5applications per place 53.1Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · Sutton20265.0applications per place 81.8Attainment 8 Selective
- 2.0 km · SuttonGood20226.0applications per place 82.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 2.0 km · Sutton20267.9applications per place 63.6Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · SuttonGraded · no overall grade20242.0applications per place 47.3Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · SuttonGraded · no overall grade20247.1applications per place 56.5Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · SuttonOutstanding20238.8applications per place 58.7Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · SuttonGood20222.5applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · SuttonGood20223.3applications per place 54.4Attainment 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
- 136785 · 319/5403
- Trust
- Cheam Academies Network
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,980 pupils · 2,119 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2011
- Replaced
- Cheam High School (URN 103010)
- Address
- Chatsworth Road, Cheam, Sutton, SM3 8PW
- Local authority
- Sutton
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources