Cleeve School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.81 miles
Published by Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cleeve School is a secondary school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 14 January 2025. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Cleeve 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 | 2.81 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
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 lived 2.81 miles away, the 11th shortest of 23 Gloucestershire secondary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2026, Year 7 had 312 first-choice applications for 304 offers; 286 offers went to first-choice families, and 26 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%).
- That 2024/25 GCSE English and maths result was the 3rd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest secondary schools in Gloucestershire that have results.
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
- Two Hedges Road, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8AE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,903 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 14 January 2025
Strengths
- “Cleeve is an aspirational school for its pupils.”
- “The curriculum is ambitious, broad and sequenced carefully.”
- “Staff engender positive relationships and look to make lessons challenging.”
To improve
- “Some pupils find the higher expectations on them hard.”
- “Occasionally, the application of the policy is varied, which means pupils’ confidence in it is mixed.”
- “However, inconsistencies remain in the application of these improved processes in class.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 February 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) | 53% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 49.9 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
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: 312 first-preference applications, 304 offers in total, 286 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.
- Pittville School 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- All Saints' Academy, Cheltenham 3.0 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Pate's Grammar School 3.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Winchcombe School 4.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Balcarras School 4.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre 4.2 mi Good Last distance published
- The High School Leckhampton 4.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Tewkesbury Academy 5.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
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