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Sir William Romney's School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formGloucestershire, South West · Tetbury GL8 8AETrust: The Athelstan TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
495of 625 places
Free school meals
22.4%
Year 11 cohort 2025
98
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 12 February 2025Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Sir William Romney's School (URN 115779, until 1 August 2011).

What the data says

Sir William Romney's School has no sixth form. Of the 101 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 38% moved to a sixth form college, 27% to a further education college and 9% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 38% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 9% of leavers started one, roughly three times the England figure of 3%.

Media Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 33% of the year group took it, against 4% of pupils across England.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Gloucestershire and England.

Sir William Romney's School
Gloucestershire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureSir William Romney's SchoolGloucestershireEngland
Pupils in the cohort1016,782607,348
Any sustained destination91%93%92%
Stayed in education75%85%86%
— school sixth form10%46%34%
— sixth form college38%11%13%
— further education college27%26%37%
— other education1%2%2%
Apprenticeship9%4%3%
Employment7%4%3%
No sustained destination7%5%6%
Destination unknown2%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureSir William Romney's SchoolGloucestershireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)44.150.346.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths43%53%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths64%71%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects20%31%41%
EBacc average point score3.754.404.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort19%19%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils25.534.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils48.654.050.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language3%9%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language9496%89%11%20%71%
Mathematics9496%88%14%22%69%
English Literature9395%86%12%21%72%
Combined Science7476%65%14%9%65%
Art and Design4748%7%15%24%85%
History4647%41%22%26%76%
Geography3435%41%29%25%79%
Media Studies3233%4%13%20%75%
Physical Education2627%11%8%24%69%
Food Preparation and Nutrition2424%8%33%21%79%
Computer Science2323%13%30%30%70%
Biology1919%23%21%45%79%
Drama1919%7%11%27%68%
Design and Technology1919%11%5%23%58%
Chemistry1919%23%21%47%84%
Physics1919%23%26%46%84%
Spanish1515%19%27%27%53%
French1414%18%14%29%57%
Religious Studies1010%31%0%32%90%
Music66%5%67%33%83%
German11%5%33%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Childcare Skills11

Other secondary schools in Gloucestershire

Archway School

Community school · sixth form · 1,053 pupils

84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.3

Balcarras School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,427 pupils

92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 58.5

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.