The Warriner School

Academy converter·Secondary school Banbury, Oxfordshire·OX15 4LJ
Composite score
55.4
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#1,845
National rank
#284
In South East
#26
In Oxfordshire
Top 58%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
44.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
42%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
62%
% EBacc grade 5+
14%
EBacc average points score
3.89

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
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
86%
262 first choices, 263 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
600
any preference, for 263 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.14
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9920221.1220230.9020240.8520251.002026

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 The Warriner 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
1,527
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
19.6%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
6.9%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
5.0%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.6%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
27.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.0
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,126
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%
251 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
85%
Apprenticeship
4%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

The Warriner School at a glance

Located in Banbury, Oxfordshire, The Warriner School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 1,527 pupils aged 11 to 18. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 44.3, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That is down 1.2 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%. 62% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 86% of the families who made The Warriner 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, 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 10.6%. There are about 17.0 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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