Marling School A GSG School
- Marling School
Cainscross Road
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 4HE - Head: Jules M Godfrey, Principal
- T 01453 762251
- F 01453 756011
- E [email protected]
- W www.marling.gloucs.sch.uk/
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 1,119; sixth formers: 341 (250 boys; 91 girls)
- Religion: None
- Open days: Check out website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 19th November 2024
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 12th November 2013
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
From September 2024, Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgement in inspections of state-funded schools.
What The Good Schools Guide says..
As a former engineering college, STEM was happening here almost before the term was coined: this is the school that once built a plane – which flew and landed safely with students on board. No surprise, then, that 80 per cent of boys take separate sciences as three of their (usually 10) GCSEs and that maths, then sciences, are the most popular of the (usually three) A levels taken by pupils. STEM results stellar too, although the head points out that art does just as well, albeit with smaller numbers, and that history gets excellent take-up at A level. Behaviour is good – pupils told us they understand the rules, feel they’re fair and don’t want to mess up. What counts for the worst behaviour here is described as one pupil as ‘tomfoolery’ – serious rebels these boys are not…
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Principal
Since April 2024, Jules Godfrey, the school’s first ever permanent female principal. Followed her childhood dream by qualifying as a barrister with a law degree from Oxford, but soon realised ‘working with criminals wasn’t for me!’ With English and drama teaching beckoning, she did her PGCE at Cambridge, then (with the exception of one independent school, which wasn’t for her either) worked in comprehensives, starting at St Peter’s in Huntingdon for five years, thence to Sponne School in Northampton (head of year 12 and sixth form), Oasis Academy Brightstowe in Bristol (assistant principal and bringing the school out of special measures) and Bournside School in Cheltenham (deputy head). Recently completed her doctorate at Bristol University.
Was attracted to Marling for its ‘high aspirations and pupils who are excited to be...
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Special Education Needs
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.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
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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