Barnwood Park School

Type Secondary
Age Range 11-16
Religion Unknown
Address St Lawrence Road
Barnwood
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL4 3QU
Phone 01452530389
Reference Number 115720

Description

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Barnwood Park School is a coeducational secondary institution located in Gloucester, England's Barnwood district, within the county of Gloucestershire. Originally established as Barnwood Park High School for Girls, the school received specialist status as an Arts College, which it retained after being renamed Barnwood Park Arts College. Since September 2018, the school has been fully coeducational and is now known as Barnwood Park School.As of January 2023, the school has an enrollment of 833 students, supported by headteacher Karen Clinton. The school operates as a foundation school, administered by Gloucestershire County Council, and offers GCSEs and BTECs as academic qualifications. Additionally, Barnwood Park School has three houses named Parks, Attenborough, and Jenner. The school achieved Artsmark Gold in 2009.

General Makeup

Number of pupils 864
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 47.11%
Girls: 52.89%

Year Groups

Year Number of pupils
7 182
8 178
9 180
10 177
11 147

Ofsted Rating Good
Last Inspection Date 2019-07-22
Date Description Report
2019-07-03 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2014-06-12 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2014-05-02 Monitoring visit Monitoring visit
2013-10-18 Monitoring visit Monitoring visit
2013-05-23 Monitoring visit Monitoring visit
2013-02-26 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2011-03-15 Monitoring visit Monitoring visit
2009-11-25 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2006-11-27 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2001-09-25 Full inspection Full inspection

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education
Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
37.3 Upgrade Upgrade

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 26% Upgrade Upgrade
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 49% Upgrade Upgrade

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
-0.44 Upgrade Upgrade

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

GCSE Results

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

2023 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference Upgrade Upgrade
Second Preference 165 23
Third Preference 158 14
From another Local Authority 2 0

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Students getting 5 or more GCSE's at grade 9-4 (A-C)

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