Chessington School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 42 42.3 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 42.3 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 36.7% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 5% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.15 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	43.4[5]	37%[5]
2023/24	43.2[3]	45.8%[3]	+0.15[3]
2022/23	44[6]	34%[6]	+0.08[6]
2021/22	43.4[7]	28%[7]	-0.33[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 89% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 24% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 15% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 43% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 4% 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	91%[9]	10%[9]	19%[9]	51%[9]	3%[9]	9%[9]
2020/21	91%[10]	24%[10]	12%[10]	50%[10]	3%[10]	2%[10]
2019/20	88%[11]	19%[11]	10%[11]	55%[11]	1%[11]	3%[11]

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: 28 Feb 2024[12]
Type: S5 Inspection[12]
Report published: 24 Apr 2024[12]
Personal development: Good[12]
Quality of education: Good[12]
Overall effectiveness: Good[12]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[12]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[12]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[12]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.4 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Applications (any preference): 360 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences: 108 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Places offered: 147 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences per place: 0.7 Entry Sept 2026[13]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	353[13]	97[13]	142[13]	2.5[13]	0.7[13]
Entry Sept 2024	389[13]	108[13]	159[13]	2.4[13]	0.7[13]
Entry Sept 2023	446[13]	149[13]	168[13]	2.7[13]	0.9[13]
Entry Sept 2022	450[13]	152[13]	146[13]	3.1[13]	1.0[13]

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: 750[1]
Trust: EVERY CHILD, EVERY DAY ACADEMY TRUST[1]
Local authority: Kingston upon Thames[1]
Website: http://chessington.kingston.sch.uk/[1]
District: Kingston upon Thames [14]
Postcode: KT9 2JS[1]
URN: 148407[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 676 2024/25[15]
English as an additional language: 17.3% 2024/25[15]
SEN support: 14.8% 2024/25[15]
EHC plan: 3.4% 2024/25[15]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 31.1% 2024/25[15]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 77.9%[16]
Mixed: 8.1%[16]
Asian: 4.9%[16]
Black: 4.7%[16]
Any other ethnic group: 1.5%[16]
Unclassified: 2.8%[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

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.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. 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.
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.
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.