Millais School
Ofsted: Good
Score
C65
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Horsham, RH13 5HR
- Distance
- 0.5km away
The Forest School
Comptons Lane, Horsham, RH13 5NT
Local ranking39th of 40 secondary schools in West Sussex
Ofsted: Good
Secondary
Phase
1140
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 26 January 2022.
School history and status
Continues from The Forest School (URN 126065) since 1 September 2025. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 43.1 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 41.8% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 60.7% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 196
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 96.0%
- Continued in education
- 91.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 3.0%
- Employment
- 2.0%
- Not sustained
- 3.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1095
- Boys
- 747 (67%)
- Girls
- 368 (33%)
- Capacity
- 1140 (98% full)
- SEND
- 18.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 12.2%
- EAL
- 7.5%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.6%
- SEN Support
- 15.9%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 20.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 52.4
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,182/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
- 7.8% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 22.5% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- 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: 81.1%
- Mixed Other: 4.5%
- White Other: 4.2%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.8%
- Asian Other: 1.7%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.2%
- Black African: 0.9%
- Asian Indian: 0.8%
81.1%
White British
4.5%
Mixed Other
4.2%
White Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Administrative
- URN
- 151923
- UKPRN
- 10098616
- Establishment No.
- 4009
- Trust
- HORSHAM LEARNING ALLIANCE
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