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Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School

  • 11–18Ages
  • 1,353Pupils
  • SecondaryPhase
  • SelectiveGrammar school
  • Sixth formAges 16–18
  • 136845URN

Oxford Road, Aylesbury, HP21 8PE · School website

Applications per placeCircle size: applicationsThis school
Latest Ofsted

Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework

Outstanding
  • Quality of education
  • Behaviour and attitudes
  • Personal development
  • Leadership and management
What Ofsted found
Applications per place · Sept 2026
5.2per place
2.1 above Buckinghamshire median (3.1)
Fewer applicationsMore

This schoolOther secondary schools in BuckinghamshireSelective

962 applications for 184 places · 3rd of 36 in Buckinghamshire
Every year since 2014
Attainment 8 · 2025/26 (provisional)
74.3of 90
8th of 36 in Buckinghamshire
All GCSE results

What did Ofsted find?

Ofsted data to 30 September 2026
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding · 20 February 2024Ofsted'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. 20 February 2024
    Graded inspection: Outstanding
  2. 14 December 2022
    Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns)

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
5.2applications per place, Year 7
2.1 above Buckinghamshire median (3.1) 3.0 above England median (2.2)

962 applications · 184 places offered · 256 named it first

SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.

  1. 2026 5.2; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
  2. 2025 5.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
  3. 2024 5.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
  4. 2023 5.4; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
  5. 2022 5.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
  6. 2021 8.7; Buckinghamshire median median 4.0
  7. 2020 6.4; Buckinghamshire median median 3.4
  8. 2019 6.0; Buckinghamshire median median 3.3
  9. 2018 5.8; Buckinghamshire median median 3.6
  10. 2017 5.0; Buckinghamshire median median 3.2
  11. 2016 5.1; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
  12. 2015 5.8; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
  13. 2014 6.0; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
More applications per place than the Buckinghamshire median in 13 of 13 years.
  • 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 20261849625.22561.39
Sep 20251849825.32531.38
Sep 20241829685.32751.51
Sep 20231809645.42831.57
Sep 20221849835.33111.69
Sep 20211801,5728.75813.23
Sep 20201741,1126.43331.91
Sep 20191751,0486.03321.90
Sep 20181741,0125.83301.90
Sep 20171768805.02671.52
Sep 20161728765.12391.39
Sep 20151448395.82641.83
Sep 20141177006.01841.57

How did pupils do at GCSE?

DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisional

179 pupils took GCSEs in 2025/26.

Attainment 8 (out of 90)74.38th of 36 in Buckinghamshire
Grade 5 or above in English and maths97%9th of 36 in Buckinghamshire
Grade 4 or above in English and maths99%
  • This school
  • Buckinghamshire median
  • England median
Progress 8 (2023/24, the latest published)+0.49
−20 = national average+2
Every year as a table
YearPupilsAttainment 85+ Eng & maths4+ Eng & mathsProgress 8
2025/26 (prov.)17974.397%99%–
2024/2518173.297%99%–
2023/2419170.894%100%+0.49
2022/2318473.397%100%+0.51

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

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  • Urgent improvement
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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
136845 · 825/4065
Trust
Insignis Academy Trust
Admissions policy
Selective
Capacity
1,305 pupils · 1,353 on roll
Free school meals
6.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
Opened
1 July 2011
Replaced
Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School (URN 110496)
Address
Oxford Road, Aylesbury, HP21 8PE
Local authority
Buckinghamshire

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