Shenley Brook End School

Academy converter·Secondary school Milton Keynes·MK5 7ZT
Composite score
56.8
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#1,640
National rank
#252
In South East
#6
In Milton Keynes
Top 52%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
45.4
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
44%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
62%
% EBacc grade 5+
13%
EBacc average points score
3.98

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
90%
298 first choices, 296 places
First choices per place
1.01
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
852
any preference, for 296 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.24
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9220220.9720231.0020240.7720251.012026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Shenley Brook End School yet. Milton Keynes does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–19
Pupils on roll
1,883
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.6%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
31.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
24.1%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.8
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,379
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
97%
300 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
93%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

About Shenley Brook End School

Shenley Brook End School is a secondary school in Milton Keynes, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 1,883 pupils aged 11 to 19 attend the school. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 45.4, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That is down 1.4 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of secondary schools nationally.

44% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 62% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 90% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (298 first choices for 296 places). After Year 11, 97% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.2%. There are about 17.8 pupils per teacher. Shenley Brook End School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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