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Selective secondary school in Gloucester, Gloucestershire

The Crypt School

Podsmead Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL2 5AE

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024 Selective Sixth form Full
School website 01452530291

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 12 March 2024

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 12 March 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

72.7 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

98% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

99% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

6.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

61% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% 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

0.60confidence interval 0.36 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
B
Average points per entry
40.2

England average 32.3

A level students
161

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1100
Places
800
How full
Full — 1100 pupils against 800 places
Girls / boys
392 / 708
Overall absence
4%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
8%

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
18%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
99%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
96%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
89%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
151

After sixth form

Went to university
62%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
163

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

39% 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
70%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
142

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 Gloucester 009F, 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
29%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
19%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
74%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
16%

England 17%

Households with no car
18%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE CRYPT SCHOOL
Headteacher
Headmaster: Nicholas Dyer
Local authority
Gloucestershire
Ward
Podsmead
Constituency
Gloucester
URN
136578

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Ribston Hall High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 67.7 0.6 mi
St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form CentreAcademy converter No grade 44.1 0.8 mi
Holmleigh Park High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.8 0.9 mi
Gloucester AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 36.6 1.3 mi
Al-Ashraf Secondary School for GirlsOther independent school No grade 1.7 mi
Severn Vale SchoolAcademy converter No grade 43.7 1.9 mi
The King's School, GloucesterOther independent school No grade 2 mi
Edward Jenner SchoolOther independent school No grade 2 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
The Bishop's Stortford High SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2023 60.2
The Royal Grammar School, High WycombeAcademy converter No grade 73.9
Yavneh CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 61.6
The Market Bosworth SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 59.5
Parkstone Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 68.5
Reading SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 83
Wilson's SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 86.9
Sir Thomas Rich's SchoolAcademy converter No grade 77.2

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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