Sir Frederick Gibberd College

Type Secondary / Free schools
Age Range 11-19
Religion Unknown
Address Tendring Road
Harlow
Essex
CM18 6RN
Phone 01279307235
Reference Number 143697

General Makeup

Number of pupils 779
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 55.58%
Girls: 44.42%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 25.3%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 22.2%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 21.7

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 127 97 224
8 102 64 166
9 88 76 164
10 57 52 109
11 59 57 116
12 Unknown Unknown Unknown
13 Unknown Unknown Unknown

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 64.2%
White, Other 12.2%
African 5.4%
Unclassified 4.5%
Mixed, Other 3.9%
White & Black (Caribbean) 1.8%
Indian 1.7%
Pakistani 1.4%
White & Asian 0.8%
White & Black (African) 0.5%
Asian, Other 0.5%
Chinese 0.4%
Irish 0.1%
Caribbean 0.1%

Overall Ofsted Rating As of September 2024, Ofsted no longer give a one word rating for schools. See our blog post for more details.
Last Inspection Date 2025-01-28
Date Description Report
2024-12-03 School inspection School 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)
46.2 Unlock Unlock

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 47.4% Unlock Unlock
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 61.2% Unlock Unlock

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)
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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:

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GCSE Results

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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.

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Points

Points Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Average Points 35.37 Unlock Unlock
Average Points (best 3) 35.4 Unlock Unlock

Grades

School Local Nationwide
Average Grade B- C+ C+
Average Grade (best 3) B- C+ C+
Percentage Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Students getting AAB or better 28.6% Unlock Unlock

2024 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
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Second Preference 144 13
Third Preference 84 5
From another Local Authority 1 0

Previous Years

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Name Distance
Abbotsweld Primary Academy
Partridge Road, Harlow, Essex, CM18 6TE
0.19 miles
William Martin Church of England Junior School
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0.38 miles
St Luke's Catholic Academy
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0.43 miles
William Martin Church of England Infant and Nursery School
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Jerounds Primary Academy
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0.67 miles
The Downs Primary School and Nursery
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0.69 miles
Hare Street Community Primary School and Nursery
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0.71 miles
Longwood Primary Academy
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0.74 miles
Kingsmoor Academy
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0.85 miles
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Purford Green Primary School
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0.96 miles
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School, Harlow
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1.01 miles
Milwards Primary School and Nursery
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1.01 miles
Katherines Primary Academy and Nursery
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1.13 miles
Pemberley Academy
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1.15 miles
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St Alban's Catholic Academy
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1.28 miles
Name Distance
Harlow Fields School and College
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0.14 miles
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0.41 miles
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0.64 miles
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Passmores Academy
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1.13 miles
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1.26 miles
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1.95 miles
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4.35 miles
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4.4 miles
The Tower School
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4.41 miles
Amwell View School
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4.69 miles
Leventhorpe
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St Elizabeth's School
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