Holyport College A GSG School
- Holyport College
Ascot Road
Holyport
Berkshire
SL6 3LE - Head: Ben McCarey
- T 01628 640150
- E admissions@holyportcollege.org.uk
- W www.holyportcollege.org.uk/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 19.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Windsor and Maidenhead
- Pupils: 600; sixth formers: 196
- Religion: None
- Fees: Day free; Boarding £16,158 - £17,157 pa
- Open days: September and November
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 23rd May 2023
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 17th May 2017
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Purposeful. Prefers to offer a traditional, fairly narrow, Ebacc-centred, academic curriculum rather than to faff about on frippery. No IB, Pre-Us, IGCSEs or BTecs. Single sciences, but no business studies or DT. STEM subjects are big: half of sixth form uptake is for maths or sciences subjects. The extended day - 8.30am to 5pm for all pupils, boarding and day - is the school’s secret sauce. The long afternoon (and the whole afternoon on Wednesdays) allows time for a phenomenal co-curricular programme with offerings ranging from…
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2019, Ben McCarey BA (York) PGCE (Oxford). Has been involved with Holyport College since its foundation, starting as deputy headmaster in 2014 followed by two years as acting head. Coming from a family of teachers (he grew up in a boarding house and even his grandparents were teachers), there was only one solution – to swear blind never to go into teaching himself. But as many headteachers have learned, when teaching is in the blood it has a way of luring you in – in his case, a direct result of an argument with his mother in which she reminded him she was still paying his way as a graduate. ‘I lied that I’d applied for teacher training so then of course I had to!’ All came out in the wash though, as...
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Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Godstowe Preparatory School | 2023 | |
| Hall Grove School | 2023 | 1 |
| Sunningdale School | 2023 | 1 |
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