The Blue Coat School Basingstoke
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
F33
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Basingstoke, RG22 6HA
- Distance
- 0.6km away
Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School
St Michael's Road, Basingstoke, RG22 6SR
Local ranking3rd of 69 secondary schools in Hampshire
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
900
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 14 September 2023. Figures last updated .
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 58.1 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 62.6% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 82.7% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 179
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 94.0%
- Continued in education
- 90.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 3.0%
- Employment
- 1.0%
- Not sustained
- 3.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 891
- Boys
- 435 (49%)
- Girls
- 459 (51%)
- Capacity
- 900 (99% full)
- SEND
- 22.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 10.3%
- EAL
- 20.2%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 4.0%
- SEN Support
- 18.4%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 17.0:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 52.5
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,278/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 4.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 9.9% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 37.6%
- White Other: 21.8%
- Black African: 10.2%
- Asian Indian: 8.8%
- Asian Other: 7.7%
- Mixed Other: 3.9%
- Mixed White & Asian: 3.8%
- Mixed White & Black African: 1.8%
37.6%
White British
21.8%
White Other
10.2%
Black African
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
St Michael's Road
Basingstoke, South East
Administrative
- URN
- 116478
- UKPRN
- 10014870
- Establishment No.
- 4604
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