Howard of Effingham School

Howard of Effingham School has demonstrated a strong performance across various domains, achieving good grades in quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership. The school has high aspirations for its pupils, who are engaged and keen to learn, contributing to a positive school culture. The sixth form stands out with outstanding provision, preparing students exceptionally well for their future educational and career paths. The supportive ethos within the school is commendable, with effective measures in place for safeguarding and peer support.

Strengths

• Strong pupil engagement and ambition to succeed
• Teachers demonstrate good subject knowledge
• Positive school culture with rare bullying incidents
• High-quality sixth-form provision preparing students well for future steps
• Diverse curriculum with an emphasis on modern foreign languages
• Strong support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities

Areas for Improvement

• Persistent absence rates of a few disadvantaged pupils remain too high
• Development of the English curriculum still requires improvement

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Howard of Effingham School attended 93.5% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 16.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 3.7% of pupils at Howard of Effingham School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). One pupil was permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Howard of Effingham School had 20.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 13.9% of pupils at Howard of Effingham School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 2.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Howard of Effingham School received £7,393 and spent £7,713 for each of its 1,504 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £896,000 (£596 per pupil).

Across all 13 schools of The Howard Partnership Trust, income was £9,406 and spending £9,407 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Leatherhead · Surrey local authority: places and applications

Howard of Effingham School is part of The Howard Partnership Trust, which runs 14 schools. The nearest others:

• St Lawrence Primary School Leatherhead
• Eastwick Infant School Leatherhead
• Eastwick Junior School Leatherhead
• Fox Grove School Leatherhead
• West Hill School Leatherhead
• Three Rivers Academy Walton-On-Thames
• Linden Bridge School Worcester Park
• Cuddington Community Primary School Worcester Park
• Sunbury Manor School Sunbury-On-Thames
• Kenyngton Manor Primary School Sunbury-On-Thames

What is Howard of Effingham School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Howard of Effingham School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Howard of Effingham School last inspected by Ofsted?

Howard of Effingham School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Howard of Effingham School have?

Howard of Effingham School has 1,471 pupils on roll.

What age range does Howard of Effingham School cover?

Howard of Effingham School for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Howard of Effingham School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 56.7, and 65% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Howard of Effingham School?

Howard of Effingham School is at Lower Road, Effingham, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT24 5JR.