John O'Gaunt School

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Hungerford, West Berkshire·RG17 0AN
Composite score
40.0
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#3,115
National rank
#471
In South East
#10
In West Berkshire
Top 98%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
32.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
25%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
43%
% EBacc grade 5+
1%
EBacc average points score
2.68

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
60 first choices, 65 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
86
any preference, for 65 places
Applications from another council area
9%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8720220.8720230.8020240.9220250.922026

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

Every child who put John O'Gaunt 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
11–16
Pupils on roll
440
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
31.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
3.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
4.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
11.9%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
32.4%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,395
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
82%
66 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
74%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
6%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

John O'Gaunt School is a secondary school serving Hungerford, West Berkshire, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 440 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 32.0, well below the national average of 46. That is down 2.9 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.

25% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 43% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. John O'Gaunt School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 60 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 82% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 11.9%. There are about 15.7 pupils per teacher. John O'Gaunt 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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