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Windsor Girls' School

Secondary · Windsor · SL4 3RT

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Requires improvement

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: Requires improvementPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 14 May 2024

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At a glance

775 pupils · 90% of 864 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
13–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
17.4% of pupils
English as additional language
15.5% of pupils
SEN support
4.7% of pupils
EHC plan
1.1% of pupils
Sixth form
Yes
Website
http://www.windsorgirls.net
URN
141852

Admissions cutoff distance: Year 9

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

GCSE results (2024/2025)

190 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025

Attainment 8 score
45.7
England 46.1
Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs
61.6%
England 64.8%
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs
43.2%
England 45.4%
EBacc average point score
4
England 4.1

Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

A-level results (2024/2025)

A-level points per entry (England: 35 ≈ B-) C+
33.8
England 35

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Attainment 8, 2024/2025

This school45.7
Median of its 12 closest peers52.6
Windsor and Maidenhead average48
England46.1

On attainment 8, this school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Hutton Church of England Grammar SchoolPreston · 180 miles awayExpected standard50.1
Brentwood Ursuline Convent High SchoolBrentwood · 41 miles awayGood61
Clayton Hall AcademyNewcastle-under-Lyme · 125 miles awayGood45.8
The South Wolds Academy & Sixth FormNottingham · 99 miles awayGood53.5
Our Lady's Catholic High SchoolPreston · 182 miles awayGood50
Archbishop Temple Church of England High SchoolPreston · 182 miles awayGood55.4
Up Holland High SchoolWigan · 167 miles awayGood48.8
Balshaw's Church of England High SchoolLeyland · 176 miles awayGood52.3
Healing AcademyGrimsby · 147 miles awayGood51
Presdales SchoolWare · 34 miles awayOutstanding58.9
Prendergast SchoolLondon · 26 miles awayOutstanding64
Penwortham Girls' High SchoolPreston · 180 miles awayOutstanding52.9

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
10.7%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
30.4%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
18.2
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

77% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 17% left the state-funded sector

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£7,428
Typical secondary school£7,798

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Where pupils go after GCSEs

In sustained education, work or training
96%
Continuing in education
93%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
3%

Where students go after sixth form

To university / higher education
59%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
22%
Any sustained destination
87%

Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher50.4%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications8.7%18.1%
In managerial or professional work51.9%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways6.9%18.1%
Residents in very good health59.4%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier71.6%62.3%
Social housing4.7%17.1%
Privately rented23.7%20.5%
Detached houses25.3%22.9%
Flats31.7%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms27.2%21.1%
Households with no car or van10.7%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01016548 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,562 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£475,000342 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£375,000–£640,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (50)£803,500
Semi-detached (85)£575,000
Terraced (103)£464,000
Flat (104)£320,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
1an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
4an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
10an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
1an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. 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, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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