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Secondary school in Witney, Oxfordshire

Bartholomew School

Witney Road, Eynsham, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 4AP

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024 Sixth form Full
School website 01865881430

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 14 May 2024

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 14 May 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

57 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

67% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

80% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

32% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.80confidence interval 0.60 to 1.00

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B
Average points per entry
41

England average 32.3

A level students
136

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1390
Places
1325
How full
Full — 1390 pupils against 1325 places
Girls / boys
693 / 697
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
21%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
12%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
11%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
96%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
88%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
57%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
208

After sixth form

Went to university
42%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
146

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

34% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
70%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
115

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for West Oxfordshire 011B, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
15%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
77%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
9%

England 17%

Households with no car
15%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
39%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
EPA TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Craig Thomas
Local authority
Oxfordshire
Ward
Eynsham and Cassington
Constituency
Bicester and Woodstock
URN
137919

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Wood Green SchoolAcademy converter No grade 46.2 3.9 mi
Cokethorpe SchoolOther independent school No grade 4.1 mi
The King's SchoolOther independent school No grade 4.1 mi
Matthew Arnold SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56.5 4.3 mi
The Henry Box SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 42.2 4.5 mi
d'Overbroeck'sOther independent school No grade 4.8 mi
St Edward's SchoolOther independent school No grade 4.8 mi
The Marlborough Church of England SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 55.4 4.9 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Redborne Upper School and Community CollegeAcademy converter Good 2024 46.6
Knutsford AcademyAcademy converter No grade 54.9
Langley Park School for BoysAcademy converter No grade 54.4
Hayes SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 54.8
Wallington County Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 77.7
Vyners SchoolAcademy converter No grade 53.5
Anglo European SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 55.6
Tudor Grange Academy, SolihullAcademy converter No grade 58.7

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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