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 admin@stroudhigh.gloucs.sch.uk
- W www.stroudhigh.gloucs.sch.uk
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 1,089; sixth formers: 278 (25 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..
Staff go to great lengths to offer flexibility. 'The more unusual the subject combinations, the better I like it,' says one pupil. 'We don't do columns of subjects here.''The school's come rocketing into the 21st century,' says one parent, and there is a real sense of a good school sharpening up still further. This shows in various ways, from a smart new uniform, introducing burgundy jackets –'not "blazers",' the girls explain – although pupils voted to keep their distinctive candy-striped shirts; to an overhaul of the way the school…
What the school says...
Stroud High School has a joint sixth form with Marling School (our neighbouring boys' Grammar)which has over 500 students and is part of the Stroud Post 16 Consortium which means that students have access to a wide range of courses, both academic and vocational.
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2014, Mark McShane, previously deputy head of Gloucester High School for Girls. He has spent all his teaching career at grammar schools in Gloucestershire, and has also been assistant head at Pate's Grammar School. He is married to Alison, and they have a young son and twin daughters.
Entrance
Approximately three applicants for every place. Now sets Durham University CEM verbal, non-verbal and numerical reasoning tests (supposedly tutor-proof) in September. Pupils come in from over 50 partner schools which vary from year to year. Additional places at sixth form, with minimum requirement of five 9-6s at GCSE.
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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
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