Graded inspection · Nov 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Bracknell Forest
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 entry458 applications · 174 places offered · 240 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.6; Bracknell Forest median median 2.0
- 2025 2.8; Bracknell Forest median median 1.9
- 2024 2.7; Bracknell Forest median median 2.0
- 2023 2.7; Bracknell Forest median median 2.1
- 2022 3.0; Bracknell Forest median median 2.3
- 2021 2.6; Bracknell Forest median median 2.4
- 2020 2.8; Bracknell Forest median median 2.6
- 2019 2.9; Bracknell Forest median median 2.3
- 2018 3.0; Bracknell Forest median median 2.2
- 2017 3.1; Bracknell Forest median median 2.0
- 2016 3.4; Bracknell Forest median median 2.2
- 2015 3.0; Bracknell Forest median median 2.2
- 2014 3.0; Bracknell Forest median median 2.4
- This school
- Bracknell Forest 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 | 174 | 458 | 2.6 | 240 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2025 | 174 | 483 | 2.8 | 251 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2024 | 165 | 452 | 2.7 | 224 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2023 | 171 | 469 | 2.7 | 190 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2022 | 169 | 499 | 3.0 | 235 | 1.39 |
| Sep 2021 | 168 | 437 | 2.6 | 206 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2020 | 162 | 448 | 2.8 | 188 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2019 | 172 | 496 | 2.9 | 242 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2018 | 160 | 478 | 3.0 | 243 | 1.52 |
| Sep 2017 | 162 | 497 | 3.1 | 227 | 1.40 |
| Sep 2016 | 157 | 535 | 3.4 | 249 | 1.59 |
| Sep 2015 | 150 | 447 | 3.0 | 187 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2014 | 147 | 444 | 3.0 | 222 | 1.51 |
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.) | 173 | 56.7 | 67% | 84% | – |
| 2024/25 | 174 | 53.4 | 59% | 76% | – |
| 2023/24 | 173 | 58.3 | 72% | 91% | +0.59 |
| 2022/23 | 169 | 57.6 | 72% | 84% | +0.46 |
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
- Ranelagh SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.6applications per place 56.7Attainment 8
- 0.5 km · Bracknell ForestRemains Good20241.6applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · Bracknell ForestStandards maintained20241.7applications per place 42.2Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Bracknell ForestGood20222.9applications per place 48.2Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · Bracknell Forest20261.5applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · Wokingham20263.6applications per place 53.3Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · Bracknell ForestOutstanding20222.2applications per place 54.2Attainment 8
- 6.7 km · WokinghamOutstanding20232.6applications per place 65.2Attainment 8
- 6.9 km · Windsor and MaidenheadGood20232.0applications per place 53.2Attainment 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
- 137267 · 867/4603
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 1,010 pupils · 1,138 on roll
- Free school meals
- 5.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2011
- Replaced
- Ranelagh School (URN 110082)
- Address
- Ranelagh Drive, Bracknell, RG12 9DA
- Local authority
- Bracknell Forest
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources