SF School Facts UK

Secondary school in Woking, Surrey

Gordon's School

Bagshot Road, West End, Woking, Surrey, GU24 9PT

Sixth form Full
School website 01276858084

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 15 October 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

63.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

76% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

90% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

72% England 40.8%

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

Progress 8 2023/24

1.02confidence interval 0.74 to 1.31

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
160

Pupils

Pupils on roll
988
Places
790
How full
Full — 988 pupils against 790 places
Girls / boys
448 / 540
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
9%

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
15%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
12%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
98%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
74%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
125

After sixth form

Went to university
74%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
146

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

41% 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
78%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
147

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 Surrey Heath 006D, 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
44%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
9%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
70%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
12%

England 17%

Households with no car
5%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
34%

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
Boarding school
Trust
GORDON'S SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Head Teacher: Andrew Moss
Local authority
Surrey
Ward
Bisley & West End
Constituency
Surrey Heath
URN
139151

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Hall Grove SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.3 mi
The Winston Churchill School A Specialist Sports CollegeFoundation school Good 2023 48.7 2.9 mi
Collingwood CollegeAcademy converter No grade 45.4 3.3 mi
Charters SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 51 3.4 mi
Woking High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 54.3 3.4 mi
Sunningdale SchoolOther independent school No grade 3.5 mi
St Mary's School AscotOther independent school No grade 3.6 mi
Tomlinscote SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 53.4 3.7 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
St Michael's Catholic Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2022 77.8
Saint Ambrose CollegeAcademy converter No grade 76.2
The Bishop Wand Church of England SchoolAcademy converter No grade 53.9
Tomlinscote SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 53.4
Matthew Arnold SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56.5
Glyn SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 56
The Coopers' Company and Coborn SchoolAcademy converter No grade 58.2
Bohunt SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 56.3

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.

All published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.