Colchester Royal Grammar School
Performance (KS4 GCSE)
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Ofsted judgements
Getting a place
Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this
We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Colchester Royal Grammar School yet. Essex 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
- 1,059
- Gender
- Boys
- Religious character
- Christian
- Admissions
- Selective
Pupil background
Special educational needs
Attendance
Staffing & funding
“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means
Nearby secondary schools
Location
Official sources
School overview
Colchester Royal Grammar School is a boys' secondary school serving Colchester, Essex, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Christian religious character. It has 1,059 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Colchester Royal Grammar School 'Inadequate'. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 82.1 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.3 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 1% of secondary schools in England.
100% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 100% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Colchester Royal Grammar School is oversubscribed: about 2 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 280 first choices for 128 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 16.0 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 7% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. If you are considering Colchester Royal Grammar School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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.