Gillingham School
Ofsted: Good
Score
C55
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Gillingham, SP8 4QP
- Distance
- 6.9km away
Shaftesbury School
Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury, SP7 8ER
Local ranking20th of 29 secondary schools in Dorset
Ofsted: Good
Secondary
Phase
1283
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 39.1 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 27.5% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 52.9% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 31.9% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 3.5 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 138
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 95.0%
- Continued in education
- 87.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 5.0%
- Employment
- 4.0%
- Not sustained
- 2.0%
After A-Levels 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 79.0%
- Higher education
- 36.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 7.0%
- Employment
- 34.0%
- Not sustained
- 16.0%
A-Level Results
2024-25C-
Avg A-Level Grade
26.0
Avg Points/Entry
nat 35.0
25.8
Best 3 A-Levels
nat 35.8
61
A-Level Students
- AAB+ with Facilitating
- 2.2% nat17.5%
- Applied General Avg Points
- 23.4
- 16-18 Cohort
- 145
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 864
- Boys
- 425 (49%)
- Girls
- 439 (51%)
- Capacity
- 1283 (67% full)
- SEND
- 20.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 27.9%
- EAL
- 6.5%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.4%
- SEN Support
- 17.1%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 15.5:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 55.7
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 11.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 32.2% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Church of England
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 87.8%
- White Other: 5.1%
- Mixed Other: 1.6%
- Asian Other: 1.4%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.3%
- Black African: 0.8%
- Gypsy/Roma: 0.7%
- White Irish: 0.2%
87.8%
White British
5.1%
White Other
1.6%
Mixed Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Salisbury Road
Shaftesbury, South West
Administrative
- URN
- 140898
- UKPRN
- 10046205
- Establishment No.
- 4511
- Trust
- SHERBORNE AREA SCHOOLS' TRUST
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