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Secondary school in Redhill, Surrey

St Bede's School

Carlton Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 2LQ

Ofsted Outstanding · 2023 Sixth form Church of England/Roman Catholic Full
School website 01737212108

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 29 March 2023

Remained Outstanding at its last ungraded inspection, on 29 March 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

57.9 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

68% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

85% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

68% 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 better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.72confidence interval 0.56 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
B-
Average points per entry
37

England average 32.3

A level students
146

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1918
Places
1890
How full
Full — 1918 pupils against 1890 places
Girls / boys
1002 / 916
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
11%

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
10%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
3%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
95%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
48%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
298

After sixth form

Went to university
48%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
7%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
136

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

38% 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
155

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 Reigate and Banstead 010E, 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
30%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
20%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
42%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
46%

England 17%

Households with no car
29%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Church of England/Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Adam Powell
Local authority
Surrey
Ward
Redhill West & Wray Common
Constituency
Reigate
URN
125278

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Royal Alexandra and Albert SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2024 53.2 0.8 mi
Carrington SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 45 0.8 mi
Reigate Grammar SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.2 mi
Dunottar SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.4 mi
Merstham Park SchoolFree schools Good 2022 45 1.5 mi
Reigate SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 52.4 1.9 mi
Caterham SchoolOther independent school No grade 4.1 mi
Oasis Academy CoulsdonAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 44.8 4.3 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
Weydon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 63.5
Gravesend Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 65.3
Barton Court Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 66.4
Salesian School, ChertseyAcademy converter No grade 64.9
Edgbarrow SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 54.1
The Latymer SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 80.1
Queen Elizabeth's School, BarnetAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 85.6
Devonport High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 73.8

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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