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Secondary school in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

Chipping Norton School

Burford Road, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5DY

Sixth form
School website 01608544998

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 24 September 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

49.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

60% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

77% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

13% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.29confidence interval 0.06 to 0.52

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as 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
35.7

England average 32.3

A level students
91

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1035
Places
1462
How full
71% full — 1035 of 1462 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
511 / 524
Overall absence
10%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
26%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
18%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
6%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
17%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
53%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
155

After sixth form

Went to university
48%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
91

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

35% 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
77%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
83

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 001D, 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
39%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
15%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
61%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
17%

England 17%

Households with no car
21%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
41%

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
RIVER LEARNING TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Bertram Richter
Local authority
Oxfordshire
Ward
Chipping Norton
Constituency
Banbury
URN
137936

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Kingham Hill SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.9 mi
Sibford SchoolOther independent school No grade 7.1 mi
Bloxham SchoolOther independent school No grade 9.3 mi
The Warriner SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 44.3 9.7 mi
Wykham ParkAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 34.8 11.5 mi
Futures Institute BanburyStudio schools Good 2022 41.1 11.5 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
Little Heath SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 48.2
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school Good 2022 53.1
Felpham Community CollegeCommunity school No grade 41.9
Newton Abbot CollegeAcademy converter No grade 40.5
William Edwards SchoolAcademy converter No grade 42.5
The Blue SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 49.7
The Douay Martyrs Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 52.6
The Grey Coat HospitalAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 66.6

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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