Graded inspection · Oct 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in GloucestershireSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | 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 entry271 applications · 165 places offered · 176 named it first
- 2026 1.6; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
- 2025 1.9; Gloucestershire median median 2.2
- 2024 1.7; Gloucestershire median median 2.2
- 2023 1.8; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
- 2022 1.8; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
- 2021 2.0; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
- 2020 1.8; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.8; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- 2018 1.8; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.8; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- 2016 2.1; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
- 2015 1.9; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
- 2014 1.9; Gloucestershire median median 1.9
- This school
- Gloucestershire 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 | 165 | 271 | 1.6 | 176 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2025 | 165 | 315 | 1.9 | 185 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2024 | 170 | 296 | 1.7 | 188 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2023 | 164 | 302 | 1.8 | 197 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2022 | 171 | 315 | 1.8 | 228 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2021 | 164 | 333 | 2.0 | 206 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2020 | 174 | 310 | 1.8 | 216 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2019 | 169 | 311 | 1.8 | 196 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2018 | 171 | 305 | 1.8 | 203 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2017 | 168 | 301 | 1.8 | 214 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2016 | 170 | 350 | 2.1 | 231 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2015 | 165 | 307 | 1.9 | 176 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2014 | 146 | 283 | 1.9 | 170 | 1.16 |
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.) | 168 | 44.1 | 37% | 64% | – |
| 2024/25 | 167 | 52.6 | 60% | 77% | – |
| 2023/24 | 169 | 45.3 | 46% | 65% | +0.05 |
| 2022/23 | 170 | 46.5 | 45% | 69% | +0.01 |
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
- Dene Magna and Sixth FormThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.6applications per place 44.1Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · Gloucestershire20261.6applications per place 32.9Attainment 8
- 9.0 km · GloucestershireRemains Good · concerns noted20241.6applications per place 42.4Attainment 8
- 9.7 km · Herefordshire, County ofGraded · no overall grade20241.4applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 10.3 km · Gloucestershire20261.6applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 14.1 km · GloucestershireStandards maintained20252.1applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 15.6 km · GloucestershireGood20232.5applications per place 44.5Attainment 8
- 15.7 km · Gloucestershire20261.3applications per place 43.1Attainment 8
- 16.2 km · GloucestershireOutstanding20245.0applications per place 73.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 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
- 137387 · 916/5422
- Trust
- Forest of Dean Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,125 pupils · 1,020 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2011
- Replaced
- Dene Magna School (URN 115773)
- Address
- Abenhall Road, Mitcheldean, GL17 0DU
- Local authority
- Gloucestershire · Forest of Dean
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources