Woking High School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 51 51.4 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 51.4 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 54.3% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 15% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.31 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	54.3[5]	60.9%[5]
2023/24	54.5[3]	59.2%[3]	+0.31[3]
2022/23	54.6[6]	57%[6]	+0.23[6]
2021/22	54.7[7]	57%[7]	+0.16[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 95% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 5% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 74% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 13% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 1% 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	95%[9]	7%[9]	65%[9]	18%[9]		3%[9]
2020/21	95%[10]	2%[10]	71%[10]	14%[10]	4%[10]	2%[10]
2019/20	97%[11]	5%[11]	76%[11]	13%[11]	1%[11]	1%[11]
2018/19	98%[12]	4%[12]	80%[12]	12%[12]		1%[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: 23 Apr 2025[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 18 May 2025[13]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: Standards maintained[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
3 Dec 2019[14]	Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools[14]	No overall grade[14]
Date not published[15]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15]	Good[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.4 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 765 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 285 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 228 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 1.3 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	776[16]	277[16]	233[16]	3.3[16]	1.2[16]
Entry Sept 2024	748[16]	268[16]	248[16]	3.0[16]	1.1[16]
Entry Sept 2023	809[16]	271[16]	246[16]	3.3[16]	1.1[16]
Entry Sept 2022	793[16]	255[16]	232[16]	3.4[16]	1.1[16]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy converter[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1050[1]
Trust: WOKING HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST[1]
Local authority: Surrey[1]
Website: http://www.wokinghigh.surrey.sch.uk [1]
District: Woking [17]
Postcode: GU21 4TJ[1]
URN: 139993[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1208 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language: 16.9% 2024/25[18]
SEN support: 14.2% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan: 4.6% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 20.1% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 62.7%[19]
Mixed: 7.6%[19]
Asian: 22.9%[19]
Black: 2.5%[19]
Any other ethnic group: 2.3%[19]
Unclassified: 2%[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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Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2015/16. 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.
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