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Stroud High School

  • 11–18Ages
  • 1,144Pupils
  • SecondaryPhase
  • SelectiveGrammar school
  • GirlsPupils
  • Sixth formAges 16–18
  • 136874URN

Beards Lane, Cainscross Road, Stroud, GL5 4HF · School website

Applications per placeCircle size: applicationsThis school
Latest Ofsted

Graded inspection · Nov 2023 Previous framework

Outstanding
  • Quality of education
  • Behaviour and attitudes
  • Personal development
  • Leadership and management
What Ofsted found
Applications per place · Sept 2026
2.9per place
0.7 above Gloucestershire median (2.1)
Fewer applicationsMore

This schoolOther secondary schools in GloucestershireSelective

424 applications for 149 places · 12th of 39 in Gloucestershire
Every year since 2014
Attainment 8 · 2025/26 (provisional)
74.7of 90
4th of 41 in Gloucestershire
All GCSE results

What did Ofsted find?

Ofsted data to 30 September 2026
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding · 7 November 2023Ofsted's previous 4-point scale (to August 2024)
AreaOutstandingGoodRequires improvementInadequate
Quality of educationOutstanding
Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
Personal developmentOutstanding
Leadership and managementOutstanding
Sixth form provisionOutstanding

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
2.9applications per place, Year 7
0.7 above Gloucestershire median (2.1) 0.6 above England median (2.2)

424 applications · 149 places offered · 197 named it first

SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.

  1. 2026 2.9; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
  2. 2025 2.8; Gloucestershire median median 2.2
  3. 2024 2.7; Gloucestershire median median 2.2
  4. 2023 2.4; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
  5. 2022 2.4; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
  6. 2021 3.3; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
  7. 2020 2.4; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
  8. 2019 2.4; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
  9. 2018 2.4; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
  10. 2017 2.2; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
  11. 2016 2.0; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
  12. 2015 2.4; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
  13. 2014 2.6; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
More applications per place than the Gloucestershire median in 12 of 13 years.
  • 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.

EntryPlacesApplicationsPer placeFirst preferencesFirst-pref. ratio
Sep 20261494242.91971.32
Sep 20251464042.81721.18
Sep 20241463972.71701.16
Sep 20231493622.41801.21
Sep 20221483562.41571.06
Sep 20211494973.32491.67
Sep 20201503652.42011.34
Sep 20191463452.41591.09
Sep 20181503532.41891.26
Sep 20171453212.21641.13
Sep 20161482982.01571.06
Sep 20151202862.41591.33
Sep 20141203102.61831.53

How did pupils do at GCSE?

DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisional

154 pupils took GCSEs in 2025/26.

Attainment 8 (out of 90)74.74th of 41 in Gloucestershire
Grade 5 or above in English and maths99%1st of 41 in Gloucestershire
Grade 4 or above in English and maths100%
  • This school
  • Gloucestershire median
  • England median
Progress 8 (2023/24, the latest published)+0.85
−20 = national average+2
Every year as a table
YearPupilsAttainment 85+ Eng & maths4+ Eng & mathsProgress 8
2025/26 (prov.)15474.799%100%–
2024/2516076.998%100%–
2023/2415974.994%99%+0.85
2022/2315872.596%99%+0.77

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

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  • 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
136874 · 916/5402
Trust
Stroud High School
Admissions policy
Selective
Capacity
835 pupils · 1,144 on roll
Free school meals
2.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
Opened
1 July 2011
Replaced
Stroud High School (URN 115753)
Address
Beards Lane, Cainscross Road, Stroud, GL5 4HF
Local authority
Gloucestershire · Stroud

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