Katharine Lady Berkeley's School

Academy converter·Secondary school Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire·GL12 8RB
Composite score
66.4
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#600
National rank
#40
In South West
#9
In Gloucestershire
Top 19%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
53.1
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
60%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
77%
% EBacc grade 5+
28%
EBacc average points score
4.71

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
90%
284 first choices, 261 places
First choices per place
1.09
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
480
any preference, for 261 places
Last place offered lived
6.78 mi
straight line, 2026 intake · 10911 m
Applications from another council area
42%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0620221.1220231.0220240.9920251.092026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2026 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.

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

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,510
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
12.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
1.9%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.7%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
21.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,058
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
95%
246 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
88%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

About Katharine Lady Berkeley's School

Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is a secondary school in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 1,510 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 53.1 — above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 2.4 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 19% of secondary schools in England.

60% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 77% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 284 first choices for 261 places. In 2026 the furthest child offered a place lived 6.78 miles from the school in a straight line, according to the council's published allocation figures; the distance changes every year with demand. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.7%. There are about 16.2 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 12% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Katharine Lady Berkeley's 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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