Marling School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Stroud, Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Not published
From Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Marling School is a secondary school in Stroud, Gloucestershire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 19 November 2024. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2021 to 2026 entry.
Marling 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 | Not published |
| 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2026: 164 first-choice applications for 149 offers; 109 offers went to first-choice families and 55 first-choice families (34%) were not offered a place.
- For Year 7 2026, 153 of the 431 applications (35%) came from families living outside Gloucestershire, and 59 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 98% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Gloucestershire.
- At A level in 2024/25 the average grade was B (England B-), and progress from GCSE to A level was below average.
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
- Cainscross Road, Stroud, GL5 4HE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Council
- Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,082 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 19 November 2024
Strengths
- “The school has high expectations of its pupils and students.”
- “Pupils and students uphold the school motto of ‘let us go forward through study to character’.”
- “They are positive about their learning.”
To improve
- “However, the number of pupils choosing subjects from the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) suite of subjects is not as high as the school plans for.”
- “The school has experienced some change and absence in staffing.”
- “During a recent period of rapid change, communication with parents, staff, pupils and students had diminished.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 December 2024 (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) | 98% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 73.9 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B | 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: 164 first-preference applications, 149 offers in total, 109 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.
- Stroud High School 0.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Archway School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Maidenhill School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thomas Keble School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre 5.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Severn Vale School 5.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Holmleigh Park High School 5.9 mi Good Last distance published
- The Crypt School 6.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
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