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Secondary school in Chichester, West Sussex

Chichester High School

Kingsham Road, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8EB

Sixth form
School website 01243787014

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 5 November 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

39 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

29% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

51% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

22% England 40.8%

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

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.43confidence interval -0.61 to -0.24

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below 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
C+
Average points per entry
33.4

England average 32.3

A level students
57

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1191
Places
1600
How full
74% full — 1191 of 1600 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
626 / 565
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
34%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
29%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
14%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
90%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
81%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
29%
No sustained destination
6%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
248

After sixth form

Went to university
49%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
8%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
77

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

12% 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
57%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
42

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 Chichester 012B, 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
24%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
33%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
48%

England 17%

Households with no car
32%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
44%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE KEMNAL ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Executive Principal: Naomi Lewry/ Nicholas Taylor
Local authority
West Sussex
Ward
Chichester South
Constituency
Chichester
URN
140105

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Chichester Free SchoolFree schools Good 2024 44.9 0.5 mi
The Prebendal SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
Bishop Luffa School, ChichesterAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 52.6 1.2 mi
The Regis SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 43.6 4.5 mi
Ormiston Six Villages AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 42.8 4.9 mi
Great Ballard SchoolOther independent school No grade 5.7 mi
St Philip Howard Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 52.5 5.7 mi
Felpham Community CollegeCommunity school No grade 41.9 5.8 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
Chislehurst School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2023 50.3
Coombe Girls' SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 55.3
WMG Academy for Young EngineersUniversity technical college Good 2022 43
Outwood Academy Hasland HallAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 47.5
The Brooksbank SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50.7
Helsby High SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 47.1
Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 46.1
Saltash Community SchoolAcademy converter No grade 42.9

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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