Woodbrook Vale School

Academy converter·Secondary school Loughborough, Leicestershire·LE11 2ST
Composite score
64.0
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#781
National rank
#60
In East Midlands
#9
In Leicestershire
Top 25%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
51.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
52%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
71%
% EBacc grade 5+
35%
EBacc average points score
4.86

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
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
73%
209 first choices, 162 places
First choices per place
1.29
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
461
any preference, for 162 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.30
00.511.5
1 per place
1.2020221.1620231.0820240.9920251.292026

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

Leicestershire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Year 7 place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Woodbrook Vale School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
830
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
11.0%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.9%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
19.4%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.8
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,965
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
92%
166 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
87%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Woodbrook Vale School is a secondary school serving Loughborough, Leicestershire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 830 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Woodbrook Vale School 'Good'. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 51.2 — above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.2 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 25% of secondary schools nationally.

52% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 71% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Woodbrook Vale School is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 209 first choices for 162 places. After Year 11, 92% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.0%. There are about 17.8 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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