Chipping Norton School

Academy converter·Secondary school Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire·OX7 5DY
Composite score
61.6
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#1,013
National rank
#180
In South East
#12
In Oxfordshire
Top 32%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
49.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
60%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
76%
% EBacc grade 5+
10%
EBacc average points score
3.93

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
91%
180 first choices, 179 places
First choices per place
1.01
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
331
any preference, for 179 places
Applications from another council area
11%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8920220.8520230.9520241.0120251.012026

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

Oxfordshire 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 Chipping Norton 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,029
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.0%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
6.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.2%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.9%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
27.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.3
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,107
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%
155 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
91%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Location

About Chipping Norton School

Chipping Norton School is a secondary school in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 1,029 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 49.3, above the national average of 46. That is down 3.6 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 32% of secondary schools nationally.

60% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 76% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 91% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (180 first choices for 179 places). 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 9.9%. There are about 17.3 pupils per teacher. Chipping Norton 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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