Report card · inspected Dec 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
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What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Expected standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Expected standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Expected standard | ||||
| Early years | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Expected standard | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
Inspection history
- 2 December 2025Report card · 7 Expected standard
- 30 June 2021Ungraded inspection: School remains 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 entry667 applications · 175 places offered · 189 named it first
- 2026 3.8; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2025 4.0; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2024 3.9; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
- 2023 4.0; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2022 3.8; Buckinghamshire median median 3.0
- 2021 4.0; Buckinghamshire median median 4.0
- 2020 3.7; Buckinghamshire median median 3.4
- 2019 3.4; Buckinghamshire median median 3.3
- 2018 3.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.6
- 2017 3.3; Buckinghamshire median median 3.2
- 2016 3.4; Buckinghamshire median median 3.1
- 2015 2.9; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
- 2014 2.9; Buckinghamshire median median 2.9
- This school
- Buckinghamshire 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 | 175 | 667 | 3.8 | 189 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2025 | 175 | 705 | 4.0 | 191 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2024 | 165 | 648 | 3.9 | 185 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2023 | 169 | 674 | 4.0 | 208 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2022 | 166 | 634 | 3.8 | 167 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2021 | 205 | 814 | 4.0 | 126 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2020 | 176 | 653 | 3.7 | 192 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2019 | 173 | 593 | 3.4 | 184 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2018 | 176 | 580 | 3.3 | 153 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2017 | 157 | 513 | 3.3 | 151 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2016 | 147 | 501 | 3.4 | 167 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2015 | 155 | 452 | 2.9 | 128 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2014 | 155 | 451 | 2.9 | 147 | 0.95 |
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.) | 186 | 52.4 | 66% | 83% | – |
| 2024/25 | 163 | 49.7 | 55% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 169 | 50.3 | 53% | 73% | +0.34 |
| 2022/23 | 164 | 51.4 | 56% | 74% | +0.44 |
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
- Amersham SchoolThis schoolThis school20253.8applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · BuckinghamshireStandards maintained20243.6applications per place 76.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.7 km · BuckinghamshireOutstanding20233.7applications per place 76.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.6 km · BuckinghamshireGraded · no overall grade20255.9applications per place 75.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 5.0 km · BuckinghamshireRemains Good20221.0applications per place 40.9Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20244.6applications per place 64.0Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · BuckinghamshireGood20221.1applications per place 41.1Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · Buckinghamshire20263.2applications per place 47.6Attainment 8
- 7.3 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20242.7applications per place 44.7Attainment 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
- 137343 · 825/4095
- Trust
- Amersham School
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,040 pupils · 1,050 on roll
- Free school meals
- 14.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2011
- Replaced
- Amersham School (URN 110509)
- Address
- Stanley Hill, Amersham, HP7 9HH
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources