Graded inspection · Jun 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 | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 10 June 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 1 May 2024Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
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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 entry362 applications · 192 places offered · 141 named it first
- 2026 1.9; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2025 2.0; Oxfordshire median median 2.2
- 2024 1.9; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2023 2.5; Oxfordshire median median 2.3
- 2022 2.3; Oxfordshire median median 1.9
- 2021 2.2; Oxfordshire median median 1.9
- 2020 2.2; Oxfordshire median median 1.9
- 2019 2.2; Oxfordshire median median 1.8
- 2018 1.7; Oxfordshire median median 1.8
- 2017 1.9; Oxfordshire median median 1.8
- 2016 2.2; Oxfordshire median median 1.7
- 2015 2.3; Oxfordshire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 2.1; Oxfordshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Oxfordshire median
Dashed bars: as Matthew Arnold School (URN 123258), 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 | 192 | 362 | 1.9 | 141 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2025 | 206 | 409 | 2.0 | 157 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2024 | 208 | 392 | 1.9 | 160 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2023 | 204 | 504 | 2.5 | 209 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2022 | 204 | 466 | 2.3 | 218 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2021 | 205 | 460 | 2.2 | 215 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2020 | 209 | 468 | 2.2 | 222 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2019 | 209 | 468 | 2.2 | 244 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2018 | 211 | 359 | 1.7 | 175 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2017 | 207 | 392 | 1.9 | 203 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2016 | 180 | 397 | 2.2 | 185 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2015 * | 178 | 404 | 2.3 | 219 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2014 * | 180 | 375 | 2.1 | 194 | 1.08 |
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 | 48.6 | 46% | 68% | – |
| 2024/25 | 207 | 56.5 | 65% | 83% | – |
| 2023/24 | 210 | 50.1 | 54% | 74% | +0.18 |
| 2022/23 | 205 | 50.9 | 52% | 73% | +0.07 |
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
- Matthew Arnold SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 48.6Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · OxfordshireOutstanding20224.0applications per place 58.9Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · OxfordshireGood20232.3applications per place 34.7Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · OxfordshireGood20234.4applications per place 60.1Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · OxfordshireRemains Good20232.5applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · OxfordshireGood20232.4applications per place 47.7Attainment 8
- 6.4 km · Oxfordshire20261.2applications per place 31.2Attainment 8
- 6.9 km · OxfordshireRemains Good20233.1applications per place 46.2Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · OxfordshireOutstanding20242.7applications per place 55.0Attainment 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
- 142104 · 931/4128
- Trust
- Acer Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,220 pupils · 1,255 on roll
- Free school meals
- 13.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2015
- Replaced
- Matthew Arnold School (URN 123258)
- Address
- Arnolds Way, Oxford, OX2 9JE
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire · Vale of White Horse
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources