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Secondary school in Reading, Wokingham

Maiden Erlegh School

Silverdale Rd, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 7HS

Sixth form Full
School website 01189262467

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 30 April 2025.

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

55.5 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

65% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

77% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

76% 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 least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.64confidence interval 0.47 to 0.82

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
38.4

England average 32.3

A level students
228

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1841
Places
1788
How full
Full — 1841 pupils against 1788 places
Girls / boys
866 / 975
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
19%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
7%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
41%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
6%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
95%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
71%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
278

After sixth form

Went to university
73%

England 50%

In education, work or training
94%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
255

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

33% 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
81%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
211

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 Wokingham 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
56%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
7%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
87%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
2%

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
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
MAIDEN ERLEGH TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Steve Jump
Local authority
Wokingham
Ward
Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates
Constituency
Earley and Woodley
URN
136637

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
UTC ReadingUniversity technical college No grade 42 1 mi
Maiden Erlegh School in ReadingFree schools Good 2023 45.6 1 mi
Leighton Park SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
The Bulmershe SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50.7 1.2 mi
Crosfields SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.5 mi
Reading SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 83 1.5 mi
Reading Girls' SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2021 51.8 1.6 mi
The Abbey School ReadingOther independent school No grade 1.8 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
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2023 67.7
Devonport High School for BoysAcademy converter Good 2023 69.3
Howard of Effingham SchoolAcademy converter No grade 57.1
Bishop Stopford SchoolAcademy converter No grade 58.7
Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective AcademyAcademy converter No grade 61.8
Simon Langton Grammar School for BoysFoundation school No grade 66.8
Newport Girls' High School AcademyAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 75.3
Invicta Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 70.8

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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