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Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre

Newent, GL18 1QF · Gloucestershire · secondary school

Ofsted: Good · 2024 Inspected 2 years ago Mixed Secondary
3.1/10 Below average

35th of 39 secondary schools in Gloucestershire we can score, 41 in total — the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.

Narrow the comparison to the 924 schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds — a tougher field — and it places 0.7/10 among them, against 2.0/10 nationally. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.

How this is worked out
MeasurePercentileWeightAdds
Ofsted 52 35% 1.81
Grade 5+ English & maths 2024/25 34.2 · 26 30% 0.78
Progress 8 2023/24 -0.65 · 10 25% 0.25
Attainment 8 2024/25 41.5 · 28 10% 0.28

Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.

Get to know the school

How it's doing. In 2024/25, 34.2% of pupils achieved Grade 5 or above in English and maths. Attainment 8 was 41.5, compared to the national median of 44.6. Progress 8 in 2023/24 was -0.65, indicating pupils did worse than those nationally who started from the same place. Narrow the comparison to the schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds — a tougher field — and it places 0.7 out of 10 among them, against 2.0 out of 10 nationally. Ofsted rated the school Good in May 2024.

Getting in. The school has 1063 pupils in a capacity of 1442, leaving 379 spare places. This means the school has real spare room, so a place is likely and classes are smaller than it is built for.

Worth asking on a visit. How does the school support pupils to raise their Attainment 8 scores closer to the national median? What specific measures are in place to improve Progress 8 for students from similar backgrounds? How does the school utilise its significant spare capacity to enhance the learning environment?

Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.

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