Hoe Valley School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 48 48.3 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL C C 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 48.3 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 52.7% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 14.2% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.21 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	46.9[6]	42.9%[6]
2023/24	49.3[4]	56.4%[4]	+0.21[4]
2022/23	49.4[7]	47%[7]	+0.10[7]
2021/22	48.8[8]	54%[8]	+0.30[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 9.1% 2024/25[3]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	C+[9]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 91% 2022/23[10]
School sixth form: 8% 2022/23[10]
Sixth-form college: 55% 2022/23[10]
Further education college: 18% 2022/23[10]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[10]
Employment: 4% 2022/23[10]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	92%[11]	9%[11]	57%[11]	19%[11]	2%[11]	5%[11]
2020/21	92%[12]	10%[12]	54%[12]	18%[12]	3%[12]	6%[12]
2019/20	95%[13]	8%[13]	53%[13]	29%[13]	3%[13]	2%[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: 13 May 2025[14]
Type: S5 Inspection[14]
Report published: 17 Jun 2025[14]
Personal development: Good[14]
Quality of education: Good[14]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[14]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[14]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Good[14]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[14]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
19 Mar 2024[15]	Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[15]	No overall grade[15]
12 Jun 2018[16]	S5 Inspection[16]	Outstanding[16]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.8 Entry Sept 2026[17]
Applications (any preference): 544 Entry Sept 2026[17]
First preferences: 118 Entry Sept 2026[17]
Places offered: 144 Entry Sept 2026[17]
First preferences per place: 0.8 Entry Sept 2026[17]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	621[17]	148[17]	146[17]	4.3[17]	1.0[17]
Entry Sept 2024	624[17]	136[17]	150[17]	4.2[17]	0.9[17]
Entry Sept 2023	680[17]	184[17]	181[17]	3.8[17]	1.0[17]
Entry Sept 2022	781[17]	194[17]	145[17]	5.4[17]	1.3[17]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 990[1]
Trust: HOE VALLEY SCHOOL[1]
Local authority: Surrey[1]
Website: http://hoevalleyschool.org [1]
District: Woking [18]
Postcode: GU22 0NH[1]
URN: 142009[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 856 2024/25[19]
English as an additional language: 22.4% 2024/25[19]
SEN support: 19.9% 2024/25[19]
EHC plan: 4.6% 2024/25[19]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 24.9% 2024/25[19]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 60.3%[20]
Mixed: 8%[20]
Asian: 24.4%[20]
Black: 5.3%[20]
Any other ethnic group: 0.4%[20]
Unclassified: 1.6%[20]

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: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2024/25, final. 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.
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