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All-through school in Cobham, Surrey

Cobham Free School

Portsmouth Road, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 1TF

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 03303300237

Ofsted

Goodas at 11 May 2023

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 11 May 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 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

53.1 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

55% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

86% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

84% 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 second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.53confidence interval 0.23 to 0.83

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
C+
Average points per entry
33.9

England average 32.3

A level students
44

Pupils

Pupils on roll
983
Places
1064
How full
92% full — 983 of 1064 places taken
Girls / boys
509 / 474
Overall absence
7%

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
15%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
11%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
6%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
36%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
92

After sixth form

Went to university
53%

England 50%

In education, work or training
83%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
30

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

24% 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
17

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 Elmbridge 017F, 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
54%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
11%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
82%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
2%

England 17%

Households with no car
3%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
47%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Free schools
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 4–18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
COBHAM FREE SCHOOL TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Michaela Khatib
Local authority
Surrey
Ward
Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon
Constituency
Runnymede and Weybridge
URN
138226

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
ACS Cobham International SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
Reed's SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.9 mi
Notre Dame SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.2 mi
Claremont Fan Court SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.7 mi
Danes Hill SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.8 mi
Three Rivers AcademyAcademy converter No grade 42.3 2.3 mi
Esher Church of England High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 55.4 2.7 mi
Heathside SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 58.7 3.4 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through 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
Dorothy Stringer SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 53.3
Willingdon Community SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 45
The Queen Katherine SchoolAcademy converter No grade 48.8
East Barnet SchoolAcademy converter No grade 53
King Edward VI Five Ways SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 75.9
St Mark's West Essex Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 46.3
Tapton School & Sixth FormAcademy converter No grade 58
Hedingham School and Sixth FormAcademy converter Good 2023 39.9

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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