Bruern Abbey School[1]
Independent · ages 7–17
Headline results
No headline results are published for this school in the latest two years.
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 17.9 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
IGCSEs don't count towards Attainment 8, so it understates many independent schools.
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI)[5]
ISI inspection
- Inspection
- November 2024[6]
- Framework
- Framework from September 2023[6]
- Leadership and governance
- Standards met[6]
- Quality of education
- Significant strength[6]
- Health and wellbeing
- Standards met[6]
- Social and economic education
- Standards met[6]
- Safeguarding
- Standards met[6]
Quality of education
- ISI found (November 2024): Pupils across the school become confident and skilled in reading, writing and speaking, which helps them learn effectively.
Health and wellbeing
- ISI recommended: The school should improve how it measures the impact of pastoral and therapeutic support on pupils' attendance and achievement.
Previous ISI inspections: 2021, 2017 (2021 report, 2017 report).
Findings of the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), restated in our own words: not ISI's wording. Read the full report on ISI's website.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
Fees
No fees published on the school's website that we could verify.
- Type
- Other independent school[1]
- Ages
- 7–17[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- Boarding school[1]
- Capacity
- 300[1]
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire[1]
- Website
- www.bruernabbey.org[1]
- Nursery classes
- No Nursery Classes[5]
- Special classes
- No Special Classes[5]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[5]
- District
- Cherwell[7]
- Postcode
- OX26 1UY[1]
- URN
- 123320[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 222 2024/25[8]
- SEN support
- 74.8% 2024/25[8]
- EHC plan
- 25.2% 2024/25[8]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[8]
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.
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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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: Get Information About Schools: all establishments (independent schools' inspectorate and provision). Period 2026-10-17, published 2026-10-17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Independent Schools Inspectorate: School inspection report, Bruern Abbey School, November 2024. Period 2026-10-17. Licence: all-rights-reserved (restated only, D71).
- 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.