Denefield School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Reading, West Berkshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.796 miles
Other Applicants · Published by West Berkshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2009–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Denefield School is a secondary school in Reading, West Berkshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 November 2023. West Berkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2009 to 2026 entry.
Denefield 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 | 1.796 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 10 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 entry in 2026, there were 217 first-choice applications for 203 offers: 187 offers went to first-choice families and 30 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 253 of the 437 applications (58%) for Year 7 in 2026 came from families living outside West Berkshire, and 92 offers went to them.
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 under one of its admission criteria lived 1.796 miles away, about the same as in 2025.
- The school has 18 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in West Berkshire is 16.2.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Berkshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Long Lane, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 6XY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- West Berkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,171 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 November 2023
Strengths
- “This is an inclusive and caring school, which is ambitious for all its pupils.”
- “There are high expectations of what pupils can achieve, including those with additional needs.”
- “They produce work of an increasingly high standard in Years 7 to 11.”
To improve
- “The sixth-form programme is appropriate but does not yet have the depth seen lower down the school.”
- “Teachers’ checking for pupils’ depth of understanding is still evolving.”
- “However, this is not yet consistent in key stages 3 and 4, though much stronger in the sixth form.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 December 2023 (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) | 50% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47 | 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: 217 first-preference applications, 203 offers in total, 187 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 West Berkshire.
- Little Heath School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Theale Green School 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Willink School 5.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Downs School 9.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kennet School 9.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Trinity School 12.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Bartholomew's School 13.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Park House School 13.8 mi Not judged Last distance published