Challney High School for Girls
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Luton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
0.768 miles
Published by Luton Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Challney High School for Girls is a secondary school in Luton for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 26 March 2025. Luton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Challney High School for Girls 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 | 0.768 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
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 0.768 miles from the school, further away than in 2025.
- That 0.768 miles was the 2nd shortest of the 8 Luton secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance, this one included; the middle figure was 1.10 miles.
- Year 7 2026 had 233 first-choice applications for 219 offers; 198 offers went to first-choice families and 35 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 48% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Luton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Luton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Addington Way, Luton, LU4 9FJ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Luton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,062 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 26 March 2025
Strengths
- “The school is determined, in all it does, that its girls will become ‘influential women of the future’.”
- “It does exemplary work to ensure that pupils can achieve this ambition.”
- “The school provides exceptional opportunities for pupils to develop their self-confidence and raise their aspirations.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 May 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) | 48% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 50.1 | 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: 233 first-preference applications, 219 offers in total, 198 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 Luton.
- Challney High School for Boys 0.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- The Chalk Hills Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lealands High School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Lea Manor High School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Icknield High School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Denbigh High School 1.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- The Stockwood Park Academy 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published