St Birinus School

Academy converter·Secondary school Didcot, Oxfordshire·OX11 8AZ
Composite score
60.2
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#1,165
National rank
#195
In South East
#14
In Oxfordshire
Top 37%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
48.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
51%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
71%
% EBacc grade 5+
20%
EBacc average points score
4.44

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
196 first choices, 235 places
First choices per place
0.83
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
341
any preference, for 235 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9820220.9420231.2320240.9020250.832026

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

Every child who put St Birinus 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,212
Gender
Boys
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
13.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.6%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
21.0%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,792
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
93%
133 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
82%
Apprenticeship
9%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

St Birinus School at a glance

Located in Didcot, Oxfordshire, St Birinus School is a boys' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 1,212 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 48.2, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That is down 1.8 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 37% of secondary schools nationally.

51% 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. St Birinus School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 196 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 93% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.8%. There are about 18.7 pupils per teacher. St Birinus 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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