Thomas Telford School

Exam results

Independent schools are not comparable in the performance tables. Most enter pupils for international GCSEs, which are not approved qualifications for these measures, so any Attainment 8 figure would be calculated from a fraction of what pupils actually sit. We do not publish one rather than publish a misleading number.

Evidence found

No phase-compatible comparable headline measure is published here.

Source coverage

DfE 2024/25 school performance files, checked by exact URN and establishment type.

What this means

The standard mainstream measure would not support a fair comparison for this establishment.

What this does not mean

The school achieved zero, has no outcomes, or should be read as performing below a mainstream school.

Average A level grade (2024/25)

B

A level entries are recorded consistently across school types, so this figure is shown.

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

Undersubscribed. Of the 1 families who named this school as their first choice, 0% were offered a place.

Places offered

157

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice

1

First choices per place

0.01

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place

0%

England 88.5%

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll

1657

Places

1550

How full

Full — 1657 pupils against 1550 places

Girls / boys

842 / 815

Overall absence

5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent

10%

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

Free school meals, English as an additional language and SEN figures come from the state school census, which independent schools do not report into. Their records return structural zeros rather than measurements, so they are not shown here.

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not applicable to this state-funded mainstream release.

Evidence found

Not applicable to this state-funded mainstream release; this is not represented as £0.

Source coverage

DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.

What this means

The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.

What this does not mean

The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training

99%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education

89%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship

7%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form

77%

No sustained destination

1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort

174

After sixth form

Went to university

61%

England 50%

In education, work or training

91%

England 84.4%

Started an apprenticeship

10%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort

305

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went on to a degree

73%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort

287

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 area around the school

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree

22%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications

19%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work

12%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways

15%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health

52%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier

52%

England 62.7%

Social housing

32%

England 17%

Privately rented

16%

England 19.2%

Detached homes

39%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms

29%

England 22.5%

No car

20%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Telford and Wrekin 024E and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type

City technology college

Phase

Secondary

Ages

Ages 11–18

Gender

Mixed

Admissions

Non-selective

Religious character

None

Sixth form

Yes

Nursery

No

Boarding

Day school

Headteacher

Headmaster: Ian Rawlings

Opened as this establishment

7 February 1992

Register status

Open

Local authority

Telford and Wrekin

Ward

Malinslee & Dawley Bank

Constituency

Telford

URN

123627

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record

Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

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