Sir Frederick Gibberd College
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–19 · Harlow, Essex
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Essex County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
Year 7 last distance offered, 2022–2026 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Sir Frederick Gibberd College is a secondary school in Harlow, Essex for ages 11–19 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 3 December 2024. Essex has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Sir Frederick Gibberd College 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2023 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2022 | Every applicant was offered a place |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place for 2026, as was the case at 59 of the 71 other Essex secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- Year 7 2026 had 123 first-choice applications for 138 offers, with every first-choice family offered a place and 15 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25: 44% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Essex.
- There are 14.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 16.9 across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Essex.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Essex schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Tendring Road, Harlow, CM18 6RN
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Essex
- Pupils on roll
- 880 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 3 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are highly resilient at this school.”
- “They have weathered the storm of learning in marquees and other schools.”
- “Pupils appreciate staff’s efforts to make such adjustments bearable.”
To improve
- “For a range of reasons, including school closure, the delivery of the curriculum over time has not worked as well as it should.”
- “Sometimes pupils have had to learn the content of some subjects in the wrong order or omit certain topics due to the limitations of the physical environment.”
- “While the sequencing of the curriculum is back on track, some staff are not paying sufficient attention to what pupils already know and can do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 January 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) | 44 | 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: 123 first-preference applications, 138 offers in total, 123 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 Essex.
- St Mark's West Essex Catholic School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Stewards Academy - Science Specialist, Harlow 0.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Bmat Stem Academy 0.7 mi Good
- Passmores Academy 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Burnt Mill Academy 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Mark Hall Academy 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Epping St John's Church of England School 4.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- King Harold Business & Enterprise Academy 6.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published