Sir Thomas Rich's School A GSG School
- Sir Thomas Rich's School
Oakleaze
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL2 0LF - Head: Mr Matthew Lynch
- T 01452 338400
- F 01452 338401
- E [email protected]
- W strschool.co.uk
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 1,260; sixth formers: 472 (163 girls)
- Religion: Does not apply
- Open days: October - see website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 6th October 2021
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Rugby is king here and plays a major part in the sporting curriculum, one of the reasons for many boys choosing STRS. The rugby club is one of the strongest in the county and it’s taken seriously. Apparently there is not much of a focus on messy handwriting and spelling - the emphasis is more on the underlying intellectual thought processes...
What the school says...
11: Gloucestershire Grammar Schools Admission Tests exam is administered by the School in partnership with the other six Gloucestershire grammar schools. 16: A minimum points score of 50 across a student’s best 8 GCSE results. The points value for each of the 8 grades is derived from the numerical results of the GCSE; Mathematics and English Language GCSE each at grade 5 or above.
Converted to an academy 2010. ...Read more
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since September 2024, Matthew Lynch, who has been at the school for nearly two decades and was previously deputy head. He started at Rich’s as an economics and psychology teacher, progressing through the ranks to head of year, head of performing arts, head of sixth form and training manager. A keen musician (he has grade 8 piano), he’s been involved in a plethora of music and drama department performances over the years.
Entrance
Selective grammar school taking 150 boys into year 7. Entrance by the Gloucestershire Grammar Schools’ Test, with preference to those on pupil premium and looked after children. Registration deadline is the end of June. Once accepted, STRS visits most pupils at their primary school.
Sixth form entry requirements (girls and boys) are 52 points across best eight GCSEs and...
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Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
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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