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Brookfields School

Mixed · ages 3–19 · with sixth formWest Berkshire, South East · Reading RG31 6SWTrust: Ascendancy Partnership TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
224of 218 places
Free school meals
30.9%
Year 11 cohort 2025
22
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding, 12 September 2019Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Brookfields Special School (URN 110186, until 1 September 2024).

What the data says

Of the 18 pupils who finished Year 11 at Brookfields School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Brookfields School’s own sixth form (West Berkshire average 54%), none went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% 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 West Berkshire and England.

Brookfields School
West Berkshire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureBrookfields SchoolWest BerkshireEngland
Pupils in the cohort181,976607,348
Any sustained destination100%95%92%
Stayed in education100%88%86%
— school sixth form0%54%34%
— sixth form college0%6%13%
— further education college0%25%37%
— other education100%4%2%
Apprenticeship0%4%3%
Employment0%3%3%
No sustained destination0%3%6%
Destination unknown0%2%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Other secondary schools in West Berkshire

Denefield School

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87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.0

John O'Gaunt School

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74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 32.0

Kennet School

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85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.5

Little Heath School

Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,682 pupils

88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.2

Park House School

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86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.9

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.