Graded inspection · Feb 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Oxfordshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| 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 · 184 places offered · 120 named it first
- 2026 1.5; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2025 1.8; Oxfordshire median median 2.2
- 2024 1.8; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2023 1.8; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2022 1.6; Oxfordshire median median 1.9
- 2021 1.8; Oxfordshire median median 1.9
- 2020 1.9; Oxfordshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.6; Oxfordshire median median 1.8
- 2018 1.7; Oxfordshire median median 1.8
- 2017 1.8; Oxfordshire median median 1.8
- 2016 1.9; Oxfordshire median median 1.7
- 2015 1.6; Oxfordshire median median 1.7
- 2014 1.7; Oxfordshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Oxfordshire median
Dashed bars: as The Cooper School (URN 123234), the previous school.
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 | 184 | 271 | 1.5 | 120 | 0.65 |
| Sep 2025 | 178 | 311 | 1.8 | 173 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 186 | 326 | 1.8 | 171 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2023 | 185 | 340 | 1.8 | 164 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2022 | 209 | 324 | 1.6 | 183 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2021 | 183 | 336 | 1.8 | 161 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2020 | 220 | 417 | 1.9 | 253 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2019 | 216 | 351 | 1.6 | 214 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2018 | 219 | 372 | 1.7 | 245 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2017 | 219 | 390 | 1.8 | 232 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2016 | 218 | 408 | 1.9 | 252 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2015 | 219 | 359 | 1.6 | 225 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2014 * | 218 | 371 | 1.7 | 250 | 1.15 |
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.) | 202 | 43.9 | 39% | 60% | – |
| 2024/25 | 220 | 41.7 | 40% | 60% | – |
| 2023/24 | 227 | 44.6 | 37% | 62% | −0.21 |
| 2022/23 | 217 | 43.9 | 39% | 61% | −0.20 |
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
- The Cooper SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · OxfordshireGood20241.7applications per place 47.3Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · OxfordshireGood20233.0applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 7.7 km · OxfordshireGood20234.6applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 13.5 km · West NorthamptonshireSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade20251.2applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 13.8 km · Oxfordshire20261.8applications per place 45.1Attainment 8
- 14.5 km · BuckinghamshireGood20223.0applications per place 75.0Attainment 8 Selective
- 14.7 km · BuckinghamshireGood20231.7applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 15.0 km · OxfordshireRemains Good · improving20232.1applications per place 52.5Attainment 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
- 141069 · 931/4032
- Trust
- Acer Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,333 pupils · 1,118 on roll
- Free school meals
- 13.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 July 2014
- Replaced
- The Cooper School (URN 123234)
- Address
- Churchill Road, Bicester, OX26 4RS
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire · Cherwell
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources