Sandhurst School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Sandhurst, Bracknell Forest
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bracknell Forest Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sandhurst School is a secondary school in Sandhurst, Bracknell Forest for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 4 December 2024. Bracknell Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Sandhurst 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Year 7 in 2026 drew 143 first-choice applications for 171 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 28 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 48% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 46.1 (England 46).
- In 2026, 73 of the 344 Year 7 applications (21%) came from families living outside Bracknell Forest, and 10 offers went to them.
- 15.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.2% across the 5 nearest secondary schools in Bracknell Forest.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bracknell Forest schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Owlsmoor Road, Owlsmoor, Sandhurst, GU47 0SD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Bracknell Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 992 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 4 December 2024
Strengths
- “Sandhurst is a caring and welcoming school.”
- “Pupils are happy and safe thanks to the warm relationships with staff and strong pastoral care.”
- “They know they have staff they can talk to if they have any worries.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, where curriculum improvements are new, pupils do not achieve as highly as they could.”
- “However, it is still below the government’s national ambition for schools.”
- “However, in some subjects, staff are still developing their understanding of the school’s new approaches to how the curriculum should be delivered.”
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) | 48% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 46.1 | 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: 143 first-preference applications, 171 offers in total, 143 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 Bracknell Forest.
- Edgbarrow School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- King's Academy Easthampstead Park 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Brakenhale School 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ranelagh School 4.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Garth Hill College 5.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published