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Girls secondary school in Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead

Newlands Girls' School

Farm Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 5JB

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024 Sixth form Girls Full
School website 01628625068

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 22 May 2024

Remained Outstanding at its last ungraded inspection, on 22 May 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

55.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

65% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

86% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

77% 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

0.66confidence interval 0.44 to 0.87

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
33.7

England average 32.3

A level students
135

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1226
Places
1200
How full
Full — 1226 pupils against 1200 places
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
13%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
13%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
16%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
4%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
73%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
192

After sixth form

Went to university
58%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
8%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
99

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

31% 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
80%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
120

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 Windsor and Maidenhead 006F, 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
46%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
88%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
1%

England 17%

Households with no car
8%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
NEWLANDS GIRLS' SCHOOL
Headteacher
Headteacher: Jo Capon
Local authority
Windsor and Maidenhead
Ward
Pinkneys Green
Constituency
Maidenhead
URN
142357

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Altwood Church of England SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 40 0.5 mi
Cox Green SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 45.9 1 mi
Claires Court SchoolsOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Furze Platt Senior SchoolAcademy converter No grade 47.5 1.2 mi
Desborough CollegeAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 45.7 1.4 mi
Holyport CollegeFree schools Good 2023 54.4 2.9 mi
Sir William Borlase's Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 72.4 3.5 mi
Great Marlow SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 47.9 4 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
Testbourne Community SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 53.3
Watford Grammar School for BoysAcademy converter No grade 68.9
Chatham & Clarendon Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 64
Woodford County High SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 80.1
Spalding High SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2023 63
Wallington High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 80.5
Queens' SchoolAcademy converter No grade 57.5
Braunton AcademyAcademy converter No grade 53.7

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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