South East
Secondary schools in Reading
66 schools, 25,954 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 47.8.
Ofsted across Reading
Good28
Outstanding6
Inadequate1
No overall grade31
35 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 31 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Reading
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kendrick SchoolAcademy converter | Reading | Outstanding 2022 | 84 |
| Reading SchoolAcademy converter | Reading | Outstanding 2023 | 83 |
| Reading Girls' SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Reading | Good 2021 | 51.8 |
| Highdown School and Sixth Form CentreAcademy converter | Reading | Good 2024 | 50.4 |
| Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school | Reading | Good 2023 | 46 |
| Maiden Erlegh School in ReadingFree schools | Reading | Good 2023 | 45.6 |
| The WREN SchoolFree schools | Reading | No grade | 44.8 |
| UTC ReadingUniversity technical college | Reading | No grade | 42 |
| King's Academy ProspectAcademy converter | Reading | Good 2022 | 36.8 |
| River AcademyFree schools | Reading | No grade | — |
| Hartland High SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Reading | Inadequate 2023 | — |