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Girls selective secondary school in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

Beaconsfield High School

Wattleton Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1RR

Selective Sixth form Girls Full
School website 01494673043

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 4 December 2024.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

75.9 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

99% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

99% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

7.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

75% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% 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 top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.95confidence interval 0.72 to 1.17

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
43.9

England average 32.3

A level students
168

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1283
Places
1100
How full
Full — 1283 pupils against 1100 places
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
24%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
3%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
23%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
2%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
99%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
99%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
91%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
181

After sixth form

Went to university
73%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
185

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

71% 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
95%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
154

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 Buckinghamshire 053D, 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
56%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
9%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
69%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
9%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
35%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
BEACONSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
Headteacher
Headteacher: Christina Bond
Local authority
Buckinghamshire
Ward
Beaconsfield
Constituency
Beaconsfield
URN
140893

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Beaconsfield SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 43.8 0.2 mi
E-Act Bourne End AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 38 3.1 mi
The Chalfonts Community CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 38.9 3.2 mi
Thorpe House SchoolOther independent school No grade 3.8 mi
The Highcrest AcademyAcademy converter No grade 38.5 3.9 mi
St Mary's SchoolOther independent school No grade 4 mi
Sir William Ramsay SchoolAcademy converter Inadequate 2022 35.4 4.1 mi
The Chalfonts Independent Grammar SchoolOther independent school No grade 4.5 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
The Latymer SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 80.1
Queen Elizabeth's School, BarnetAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 85.6
Devonport High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 73.8
St. Mary's Menston, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter No grade 55
St Bede's SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2023 57.9
Weydon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 63.5
Gravesend Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 65.3
Barton Court Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 66.4

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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