Graded inspection · Jul 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in WiltshireSelective
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 |
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 entry179 applications · 107 places offered · 99 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Wiltshire median median 1.6
- 2025 1.8; Wiltshire median median 1.7
- 2024 2.2; Wiltshire median median 1.5
- 2023 1.5; Wiltshire median median 1.5
- 2022 2.2; Wiltshire median median 1.6
- 2021 3.2; Wiltshire median median 2.4
- 2020 2.3; Wiltshire median median 1.6
- 2019 2.3; Wiltshire median median 1.5
- 2018 1.8; Wiltshire median median 1.6
- 2017 2.1; Wiltshire median median 1.8
- 2016 1.7; Wiltshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.5; Wiltshire median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2014 1.7; Wiltshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Wiltshire median
Dashed bars: as Avon Valley College (URN 126459), 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 | 107 | 179 | 1.7 | 99 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2025 | 97 | 176 | 1.8 | 91 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2024 | 61 | 133 | 2.2 | 59 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2023 | 111 | 171 | 1.5 | 81 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2022 | 70 | 151 | 2.2 | 61 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2021 | 89 | 283 | 3.2 | 85 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2020 | 74 | 171 | 2.3 | 73 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2019 | 53 | 119 | 2.3 | 52 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2018 | 67 | 121 | 1.8 | 54 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2017 | 62 | 131 | 2.1 | 62 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 104 | 178 | 1.7 | 104 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 * | 113 | 173 | 1.5 | 103 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2014 * | 81 | 138 | 1.7 | 75 | 0.93 |
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.) | 80 | 35.8 | 19% | 40% | – |
| 2024/25 | 77 | 34.8 | 18% | 46% | – |
| 2023/24 | 73 | 40.4 | 25% | 49% | −0.18 |
| 2022/23 | 66 | 34.1 | 14% | 41% | −0.29 |
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
- Avon Valley AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 35.8Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · WiltshireRemains Good20221.6applications per place 39.2Attainment 8
- 10.7 km · WiltshireGood20221.3applications per place 38.4Attainment 8
- 13.3 km · Wiltshire20262.6applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- 13.4 km · WiltshireGraded · no overall grade20252.0applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 13.5 km · WiltshireRemains Good20231.5applications per place 32.3Attainment 8
- 13.6 km · WiltshireImproved significantly20251.7applications per place 76.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 15.1 km · WiltshireOutstanding20221.6applications per place 73.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 15.5 km · WiltshireRequires improvement20231.8applications per place 34.4Attainment 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
- 143005 · 865/4071
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 925 pupils · 517 on roll
- Free school meals
- 24.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 July 2016
- Replaced
- Avon Valley College (URN 126459)
- Address
- Recreation Road, Durrington, Salisbury, SP4 8HH
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources