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Aureus School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 40 40.0 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
40 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
31.9% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
11% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
-0.46 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 33.7[5] 19.4%[5]
2023/24 35[3] 22.8%[3] -0.46[3]
2022/23 36.5[6] 25%[6] -0.38[6]
2021/22 41.1[7] 25%[7] -0.51[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
90% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
14% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
4% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
64% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
3% 2022/23[8]
Employment
5% 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 93%[9] 24%[9] 3%[9] 56%[9] 4%[9] 4%[9]

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
22 Oct 2024[10]
Type
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[10]
Report published
27 Nov 2024[10]
Personal development
Good[10]
Quality of education
Good[10]
Behaviour and attitudes
Good[10]
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes[10]
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Good[10]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
4 Jul 2023[11] Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1[11] No overall grade[11]
29 Mar 2022[12] Academy First Section 5[12] Requires improvement[12]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
3.4 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Applications (any preference)
478 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences
148 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Places offered
142 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences per place
1.0 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 336[13] 53[13] 104[13] 3.2[13] 0.5[13]
Entry Sept 2024 306[13] 50[13] 110[13] 2.8[13] 0.5[13]
Entry Sept 2023 263[13] 59[13] 85[13] 3.1[13] 0.7[13]
Entry Sept 2022 221[13] 80[13] 85[13] 2.6[13] 0.9[13]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Capacity
1200[1]
Trust
GLF SCHOOLS[1]
Local authority
Oxfordshire[1]
Website
www.aureusschool.org[1]
District
Vale of White Horse[14]
Postcode
OX11 6FF[1]
URN
140653[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
485 2024/25[15]
English as an additional language
19.6% 2024/25[15]
SEN support
21.2% 2024/25[15]
EHC plan
8.3% 2024/25[15]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
33.8% 2024/25[15]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
75.1%[16]
Mixed
7%[16]
Asian
7%[16]
Black
7.3%[16]
Any other ethnic group
1.7%[16]
Unclassified
1.9%[16]

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. 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.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2021/22. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. 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.