The Magna Carta School

Academy converter·Secondary school Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey·TW18 3HJ
Composite score
58.4
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#1,398
National rank
#223
In South East
#37
In Surrey
Top 44%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
46.7
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
46%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
66%
% EBacc grade 5+
15%
EBacc average points score
4.21

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
155 first choices, 248 places
First choices per place
0.62
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
342
any preference, for 248 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7320220.5920230.5620240.5220250.622026

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

Every child who put The Magna Carta School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,029
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
24.0%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
17.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.3%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
26.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,951
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
94%
211 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
90%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

The Magna Carta School is a secondary school serving Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 1,029 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 46.7, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That is down 2.1 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 44% of secondary schools nationally.

46% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 66% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. The Magna Carta School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 155 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 94% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.3%. There are about 15.7 pupils per teacher. The Magna Carta 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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