Cressex Community School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 44 44.3 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 44.3 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 41.8% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 6.8% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.48 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	50.7[5]	52.4%[5]
2023/24	45.2[3]	46.6%[3]	+0.48[3]
2022/23	48[6]	48%[6]	+0.40[6]
2021/22	47.6[7]	39%[7]	+0.43[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 93% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 45% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 21% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 22% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 4% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	89%[9]	34%[9]	16%[9]	27%[9]	3%[9]	8%[9]
2020/21	90%[10]	35%[10]	14%[10]	35%[10]	2%[10]	5%[10]
2019/20	94%[11]	40%[11]	17%[11]	34%[11]	1%[11]	1%[11]
2018/19	93%[12]	37%[12]	22%[12]	28%[12]	3%[12]	2%[12]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 100% 2016/17[13]
UK higher education: 88% 2016/17[13]
Education: 88% 2016/17[13]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2016/17[13]
Employment: 13% 2016/17[13]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 27 Feb 2024[14]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[14]
Report published: 25 Apr 2024[14]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[14]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[14]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
8 Jan 2019[15]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15]	No overall grade[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.1 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 453 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 168 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 145 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 1.2 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	466[16]	178[16]	144[16]	3.2[16]	1.2[16]
Entry Sept 2024	455[16]	155[16]	145[16]	3.1[16]	1.1[16]
Entry Sept 2023	437[16]	186[16]	140[16]	3.1[16]	1.3[16]
Entry Sept 2022	416[16]	153[16]	137[16]	3.0[16]	1.1[16]

Character & practicalities

Type: Foundation school[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 803[1]
Trust: Cressex Co-operative Learning Partnership[1]
Local authority: Buckinghamshire[1]
Website: www.cressex.org [1]
District: Buckinghamshire [17]
Postcode: HP12 4QA[1]
URN: 110500[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 762 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language: 57.3% 2024/25[18]
SEN support: 15.9% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan: 4.9% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 29.3% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 22.2%[19]
Mixed: 7.3%[19]
Asian: 65%[19]
Black: 3.9%[19]
Any other ethnic group: 1.2%[19]
Unclassified: 0.4%[19]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Quote
It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: 16-18 destinations. Period 2016/17, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.