Graded inspection · Apr 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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 entryReception entry, September 2026: 2.1 per place (189 applications for 90 places).
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 2025 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Sep 2024 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sep 2023 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sep 2021 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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.) | 60 | 1.4 | 0% | 0% | – |
| 2024/25 | 58 | 0.9 | 2% | 2% | – |
| 2023/24 | 53 | 0.8 | 0% | 0% | −3.84 |
| 2022/23 | 55 | 18.8 | 73% | 89% | −3.30 |
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
- Europa School UKThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.4Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · OxfordshireSome aspects not as strong20242.3applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · OxfordshireRemains Good20233.1applications per place 46.2Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · OxfordshireRemains Good20243.2applications per place 39.0Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · OxfordshireRemains Outstanding20221.8applications per place 59.6Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · OxfordshireGraded · no overall grade20243.4applications per place 40.0Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · OxfordshireGood202333.1Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · OxfordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 50.8Attainment 8
- 8.0 km · Oxfordshire20261.2applications per place 31.2Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 138269 · 931/4002
- Trust
- Europa School UK
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,176 pupils · 1,146 on roll
- Free school meals
- 2.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 4 September 2012
- Address
- Thame Lane, Culham, Abingdon, OX14 3DZ
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire · South Oxfordshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources