Graded inspection · Mar 2025 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 entry1,080 applications · 183 places offered · 309 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 5.9; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2025 6.2; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2024 5.2; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
- 2023 5.6; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2022 5.4; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
- 2021 6.9; Buckinghamshire median median 4.0
- 2020 5.6; Buckinghamshire median median 3.4
- 2019 5.7; Buckinghamshire median median 3.3
- 2018 5.9; Buckinghamshire median median 3.6
- 2017 5.7; Buckinghamshire median median 3.2
- 2016 5.1; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2015 5.3; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
- 2014 4.6; 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 | 183 | 1,080 | 5.9 | 309 | 1.69 |
| Sep 2025 | 178 | 1,102 | 6.2 | 262 | 1.47 |
| Sep 2024 | 182 | 948 | 5.2 | 225 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2023 | 181 | 1,013 | 5.6 | 242 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2022 | 183 | 991 | 5.4 | 229 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2021 | 185 | 1,268 | 6.9 | 414 | 2.24 |
| Sep 2020 | 184 | 1,030 | 5.6 | 250 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2019 | 186 | 1,068 | 5.7 | 287 | 1.54 |
| Sep 2018 | 177 | 1,046 | 5.9 | 254 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2017 | 180 | 1,019 | 5.7 | 292 | 1.62 |
| Sep 2016 | 178 | 907 | 5.1 | 230 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2015 | 179 | 945 | 5.3 | 256 | 1.43 |
| Sep 2014 | 175 | 812 | 4.6 | 191 | 1.09 |
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.) | 179 | 75.6 | 98% | 99% | – |
| 2024/25 | 180 | 74.0 | 97% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 181 | 76.7 | 100% | 100% | +0.84 |
| 2022/23 | 179 | 76.0 | 98% | 99% | +0.88 |
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
- Chesham Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20255.9applications per place 75.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.5 km · BuckinghamshireRemains Good20221.0applications per place 40.9Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · BuckinghamshireStandards maintained20243.6applications per place 76.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.6 km · Buckinghamshire20253.8applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 5.1 km · BuckinghamshireOutstanding20233.7applications per place 76.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 5.5 km · HertfordshireGood20232.8applications per place 54.0Attainment 8
- 7.3 km · Buckinghamshire20263.5applications per place 51.9Attainment 8
- 7.8 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20244.6applications per place 64.0Attainment 8
- 8.3 km · Buckinghamshire20263.2applications per place 47.6Attainment 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
- 137091 · 825/4079
- Trust
- Red Kite Schools Trust
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 1,219 pupils · 1,331 on roll
- Free school meals
- 2.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2011
- Replaced
- Chesham Grammar School (URN 110504)
- Address
- White Hill, Chesham, HP5 1BA
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources