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Wokingham · RG41 1JP · Wokingham
Ages 11–18
Status: Open
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OpenSecondaryURN 139853
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Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,042
Local authority
Wokingham
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Wokingham, Wokingham, 1,042 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 15.2%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 139853
Location
- Address
- Robin Hood Lane, Winnersh
- Postcode
- RG41 5NE
- Town
- Wokingham
- County
- Berkshire
- Local authority
- Wokingham
- District
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,042
- Boys / girls
- 881 / 161
- School capacity
- 1,450
- Capacity fill
- 1,042 / 1,450 (72%)
- Free school meals
- 15.2%
- FSM pupils
- 140
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: THE FOREST SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- THE FOREST SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Ms Shirley Austin
- Telephone
- 01189781626
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Expected standard
Inspection date
2025-12-09
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 49.1
- Progress 8
- -0.1
- English & maths grade 5+
- 50%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 72%
- EBacc entry
- 35%
- EBacc APS
- 4.4