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Secondary school in Warlingham, Surrey

Warlingham School

Tithepit Shaw Lane, Warlingham, Surrey, CR6 9YB

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01883624067

Ofsted

Goodas at 10 November 2022

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 10 November 2022.

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

44.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

42% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

65% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

18% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.18confidence interval -0.36 to 0.01

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
28.9

England average 32.3

A level students
136

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1396
Places
1536
How full
91% full — 1396 of 1536 places taken
Girls / boys
674 / 722
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
21%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
20%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
20%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
88%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
45%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
240

After sixth form

Went to university
47%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
128

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

13% 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
50%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
115

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 Tandridge 002B, 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
32%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
16%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
86%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
2%

England 17%

Households with no car
12%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
36%

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
TANDRIDGE LEARNING TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Paul Foster
Local authority
Surrey
Ward
Warlingham West
Constituency
East Surrey
URN
138928

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Riddlesdown CollegiateAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 50.7 1 mi
OneSchool Global Kenley CampusOther independent school No grade 1.6 mi
Croydon High SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.7 mi
de Stafford SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 42.7 1.8 mi
Oasis Academy CoulsdonAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 44.8 2.3 mi
The Quest AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 37.5 2.5 mi
Royal Russell SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.8 mi
Thomas More Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 42.1 2.9 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
Millom SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 44.9
Oakwood SchoolCommunity school No grade 43
Dene Magna and Sixth FormAcademy converter No grade 52.6
Ridgewood SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 49.5
Bishop's Hatfield Girls' SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 51.9
The Earls High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 48.2
Fulbrook SchoolAcademy converter No grade 42.9
The Gryphon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 46.7

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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