Pittville School
Secondary · Foundation school · Ages 11–16 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.39 miles
Published by Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Pittville School is a secondary school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire for ages 11–16 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 26 February 2025. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Pittville School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 2.39 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Year 7 2026: the last child offered a place lived 2.39 miles away, the 8th shortest of 23 Gloucestershire secondary schools with a published Year 7 last distance (middle figure 3.81 miles).
- The Year 7 last distance in 2026 was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2019, and was the longest of the 7 years with a published distance.
- Year 7 2026 had 129 first-choice applications for 162 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 33 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 44% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 47.5 (England 46).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Albert Road, Cheltenham, GL52 3JD
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 858 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 26 February 2025
Strengths
- “The school has high expectations of pupils.”
- “It is aspirational for what all pupils have the potential to achieve.”
- “Pupils meet these expectations.”
To improve
- “However, for a minority of pupils, the school’s interventions are not supporting these pupils to improve their conduct sufficiently over time.”
- “These pupils, which include a higher proportion who are disadvantaged, receive repeated suspensions from school.”
- “Therefore, they are missing extended periods of learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 44% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47.5 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 129 first-preference applications, 162 offers in total, 129 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Gloucestershire.
- All Saints' Academy, Cheltenham 1.9 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Cleeve School 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pate's Grammar School 2.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Balcarras School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The High School Leckhampton 2.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Chosen Hill School 4.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Churchdown School 5.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
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