Davison Church of England High School for Girls, Worthing[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 51 50.8 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 50.8 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 56% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 16% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.34 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	52.1[5]	56.6%[5]
2023/24	51.3[3]	59.9%[3]	+0.34[3]
2022/23	54.4[6]	62%[6]	+0.45[6]
2021/22	54.7[7]	60%[7]	+0.23[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 95% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 5% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 30% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 55% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 2% 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	96%[9]	4%[9]	25%[9]	60%[9]	2%[9]	3%[9]
2020/21	96%[10]	5%[10]	28%[10]	57%[10]	2%[10]	3%[10]
2019/20	97%[11]	4%[11]	18%[11]	73%[11]	1%[11]	1%[11]
2018/19	96%[12]	4%[12]	14%[12]	72%[12]	3%[12]	2%[12]

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: 4 Jun 2024[13]
Type: S5 Inspection[13]
Report published: 15 Jul 2024[13]
Personal development: Outstanding[13]
Quality of education: Outstanding[13]
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding[13]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
28 Mar 2023[14]	Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[14]	No overall grade[14]
31 Oct 2017[15]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15]	No overall grade[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.2 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 577 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 296 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 265 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 1.1 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	495[16]	249[16]	269[16]	1.8[16]	0.9[16]
Entry Sept 2024	516[16]	256[16]	268[16]	1.9[16]	1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2023	523[16]	273[16]	268[16]	2.0[16]	1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2022	502[16]	242[16]	264[16]	1.9[16]	0.9[16]

Character & practicalities

Type: Voluntary controlled school[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Girls[1]
Faith: Church of England[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1350[1]
Local authority: West Sussex[1]
Website: http://www.davison.w-sussex.sch.uk/[1]
District: Worthing [17]
Postcode: BN11 2JX[1]
URN: 126093[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1328 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language: 7.8% 2024/25[18]
SEN support: 17.6% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan: 3.2% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 14.1% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 83.7%[19]
Mixed: 7.6%[19]
Asian: 4.9%[19]
Black: 1.4%[19]
Any other ethnic group: 1.2%[19]
Unclassified: 1.1%[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.
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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.
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