Academy converter · Secondary
Staines-upon-Thames · TW18 1PF · Surrey
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
1.5 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 137116
The Magna Carta School
Academy converter · Staines-upon-Thames · TW18 3HJ
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–16
Pupils
1,042
Local authority
Surrey
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formDoes not have 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 11–16, in Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, 1,042 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 24.9%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 137116
Location
- Address
- Thorpe Road
- Postcode
- TW18 3HJ
- Town
- Staines-upon-Thames
- County
- Surrey
- Local authority
- Surrey
- District
- Runnymede
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge
- 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
- 517 / 525
- School capacity
- 1,275
- Capacity fill
- 1,042 / 1,275 (82%)
- Free school meals
- 24.9%
- FSM pupils
- 259
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: UNITY SCHOOLS TRUST
- Academy trust
- UNITY SCHOOLS TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Craig Adams
- Telephone
- 01784454320
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
Not judged
Inspection date
2024-09-24
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
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
- 48.8
- Progress 8
- 0.1
- English & maths grade 5+
- 53%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 69%
- EBacc entry
- 18%
- EBacc APS
- 4.3