John Mason School

Academy converter·Secondary school Abingdon, Oxfordshire·OX14 1JB
Composite score
55.6
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#1,799
National rank
#278
In South East
#25
In Oxfordshire
Top 57%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
44.5
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
42%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
59%
% EBacc grade 5+
27%
EBacc average points score
4.14

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
65 first choices, 180 places
First choices per place
0.36
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
413
any preference, for 180 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.30
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1220220.9320230.8320240.6620250.362026

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

Every child who put John Mason 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
995
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.6%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
15.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
11.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
32.3%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,282
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
91%
157 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
88%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

John Mason School at a glance

Located in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, John Mason School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 995 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 44.5, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 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.

42% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 59% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. John Mason School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 65 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 91% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 11.5%. There are about 18.7 pupils per teacher. John Mason 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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