Altwood Church of England School

Academy converter·Secondary school Windsor and Maidenhead·SL6 4PU
Composite score
50.0
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#2,510
National rank
#370
In South East
#10
In Windsor and Maidenhead
Top 79%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
40.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
29%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
49%
% EBacc grade 5+
2%
EBacc average points score
3.23

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
96%
104 first choices, 143 places
First choices per place
0.73
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
1,031
any preference, for 143 places
Applications from another council area
15%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.11
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6620220.6620230.6420240.8320250.732026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Altwood Church of England School yet. Windsor and Maidenhead 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
794
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
26.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
14.7%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
5.3%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
28.8%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,950
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
88%
58 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
79%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
7%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Altwood Church of England School at a glance

Located in Windsor and Maidenhead, Altwood Church of England School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 794 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 40.0, below the national average of 46. That is down 3.4 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

29% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 49% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 96% of the families who made Altwood Church of England School their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 88% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.0%. There are about 16.2 pupils per teacher. Altwood Church of England 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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