Amersham School
Ofsted: Expected standardAcademy converter · Secondary
Amersham · HP7 9HH · Buckinghamshire
Ages 11–18
- Att850.3
- P80.3
- EM5+53%
- Absence8.7%
1.0 miles away
OpenSecondaryOfsted: OutstandingURN 137219
Dr Challoner's High School
Academy converter · Amersham · HP7 9QB
Ages 11–18 · 1,391 pupils · Buckinghamshire
Ofsted
Outstanding
Attainment 8
78.2
Overall absence
5.3%
Admissions demand
1.68 · Competitive
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Outstanding
Inspection date
2023-11-21
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Progress 8+1.11
−20+2
Attainment 878.2
English & maths grade 5+99%
English & maths grade 4+100%
EBacc entry97%
EBacc APS: 7.7
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence5.3%
Persistent absence (10%+)13.4%
Unauthorised0.3%
- Authorised absence
- 5.0%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.5%
- Enrolments in measure
- 928
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for secondary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.68 · Competitive
1st preferences
309
Places offered
184
1st-preference offers
182
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 644
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 184
- Applications from outside LA
- 180
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 5
- Admissions policy (GIAS)
- Selective
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill120%
1,391 pupils · 1,145 places
- Pupils on roll
- 1,391
- Boys / girls
- 0 / 1,391
- School capacity
- 1,145
- Capacity fill
- 1,391 / 1,145 (121%)
- Free school meals
- 2.6%
- FSM pupils
- 25
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Gender
- Girls
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: DR CHALLONER'S HIGH SCHOOL
- Academy trust
- DR CHALLONER'S HIGH SCHOOL
- Headteacher
- Alan Roe
Location
- Address
- Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont
- Postcode
- HP7 9QB
- Town
- Amersham
- County
- Buckinghamshire
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- District
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Girls academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, 1,391 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, selective admissions. Free school meals: 2.6%.
Nearby secondary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Dr Challoner's Grammar School
Ofsted: OutstandingAcademy converter · Secondary
Amersham · HP6 5HA · Buckinghamshire
Ages 11–18
- Att877.5
- P81.2
- EM5+100%
- Absence5.5%
1.8 miles away
St Clement Danes School
Ofsted: OutstandingAcademy converter · Secondary
Rickmansworth · WD3 6EW · Hertfordshire
Ages 11–18
- Att863.8
- P80.7
- EM5+82%
- Absence6.9%
2.4 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Alan Roe
- Telephone
- 01494763296