Graded inspection · Feb 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
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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 entry852 applications · 164 places offered · 237 named it first
- 2026 5.2; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
- 2025 4.8; Gloucestershire median median 2.2
- 2024 4.6; Gloucestershire median median 2.2
- 2023 4.2; Gloucestershire median median 2.1
- 2022 4.4; Gloucestershire median median 2.0
- 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 | 164 | 852 | 5.2 | 237 | 1.45 |
| Sep 2025 | 172 | 829 | 4.8 | 235 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2024 | 170 | 781 | 4.6 | 234 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2023 | 147 | 615 | 4.2 | 185 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2022 | 117 | 514 | 4.4 | 162 | 1.38 |
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.) | 119 | 59.7 | 66% | 86% | – |
| 2024/25 | 0 | – | |||
| 2023/24 | 0 | – | |||
| 2022/23 | 0 | – |
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 High School LeckhamptonThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20245.2applications per place 59.7Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · GloucestershireGood20222.8applications per place 49.6Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · GloucestershireGraded · no overall grade20254.3applications per place 62.1Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · GloucestershireOutstanding20242.1applications per place 82.4Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.2 km · GloucestershireSome aspects not as strong20241.1applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- 4.3 km · GloucestershireStandards maintained20252.8applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · GloucestershireGraded · no overall grade20244.2applications per place 45.1Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · GloucestershireGood20222.8applications per place 48.9Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · Gloucestershire20263.9applications per place 53.3Attainment 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
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 148563 · 916/4022
- Trust
- The Balcarras Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 759 on roll
- Free school meals
- 9.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2021
- Address
- Farm Lane, Leckhampton, Cheltenham, GL51 3FS
- Local authority
- Gloucestershire · Cheltenham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources