Stroud High School A GSG School
- Stroud High School
Beards Lane
Cainscross Road
Stroud
Gloucestershire
GL5 4HF - Head: Mark McShane
- T 01453 764441
- F 01453 756304
- E [email protected]
- W www.stroudhigh.gloucs.sch.uk
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 1,110; sixth formers: 316 (40 boys)
- Religion: None
- Open days: See website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 7th November 2023
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Results are excellent, despite school and pupils constantly reminding us that this is not an exam factory and that it’s chosen as much for its sense of community, enrichment and wellbeing as the high grades. Parents say there’s an emphasis ‘on creative ways to learn – it’s not a one size fits all’. We saw every kind of teaching – practicals aplenty in the science labs, with pupils chatting through their findings, right through to silent classrooms with pupils working independently. ‘Everyone wants to learn,’ said our guide…
What the school says...
We know education is for life. Both inside and outside of the classroom we want our students to do exceptional things as an everyday occurrence and this enables them to achieve life changing qualifications. Our community is built upon relationships - admitting girls from years 7-11and then a thriving co-educational sixth form. Our performance at GCSE and A level combined has the Sunday Times Parent Power ranking us year on year as one of the top performing schools in the South West and acknowledging us as their State Secondary School of the Year in 2025. ...Read more
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2014, Mark McShane. Career fully wedded to the Gloucestershire grammars – first Pate’s, where he became assistant head, then Denmark Road as deputy head before coming here. Politics degree from Essex, PGCE from University of Wales. Always wanted to teach – ‘History has been my subject, but after 10 years I’ve finally got my hands on a politics class!’ he grins excitedly.
His large, ultra-tidy office doesn’t give much away about him, but you don’t need long in his company to get a sense of his warmth, dedication and keenness to maximise the sense of community that the school is known for. Parents say he is ‘wonderful’ and ‘everything you could hope for in a head’. Pupils say he keeps the school’s tone ‘light’ with his sense of fun...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Stroud High School recognises that all pupils may have special educational needs at some stage in their school career. At Stroud High School we ensure that all pupils have access to a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum, irrespective of ability, disability, cognitive development or other perceived differences. The SENCO works alongside all members of staff to identify and meet individual needs in order for all students to fulfill their potential.
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.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Beaudesert Park School | 2024 | 3 |
| Heywood Prep | 2024 | 2 |
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