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Claverham Community College[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 48 48.0 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
48 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
51.1% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
12.3% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
-0.07 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26
Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25
Not calculated[4]
Earlier years
Year Attainment 8 Grade 5+ in English & maths Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 50.3[5] 56.4%[5]
2023/24 47.4[3] 49.8%[3] -0.07[3]
2022/23 53.5[6] 58%[6] +0.44[6]
2021/22 51.3[7] 55%[7] -0.05[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
96% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
19% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
42% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
27% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
1% 2022/23[8]
Employment
3% 2022/23[8]
Earlier leavers
Left in Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment School sixth form Sixth-form college Further education college Apprenticeship Employment
2021/22 95%[9] 9%[9] 42%[9] 33%[9] 3%[9] 6%[9]
2020/21 93%[10] 15%[10] 46%[10] 20%[10] 4%[10] 4%[10]
2019/20 94%[11] 15%[11] 36%[11] 31%[11] 5%[11] 3%[11]
2018/19 96%[12] 17%[12] 48%[12] 26%[12] 3%[12] 2%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection
23 Apr 2024[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
23 May 2024[13]
Safeguarding is effective
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
31 Oct 2018[14] Exempt School Inspection[14] Good[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
3.1 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference)
703 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences
307 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered
226 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place
1.4 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 733[15] 343[15] 228[15] 3.2[15] 1.5[15]
Entry Sept 2024 684[15] 318[15] 229[15] 3.0[15] 1.4[15]
Entry Sept 2023 548[15] 224[15] 227[15] 2.4[15] 1.0[15]
Entry Sept 2022 596[15] 280[15] 228[15] 2.6[15] 1.2[15]

Character & practicalities

Type
Community school[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
1140[1]
Local authority
East Sussex[1]
Website
http://www.claverham.e-sussex.sch.uk[1]
District
Rother[16]
Postcode
TN33 0HT[1]
URN
114584[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll
1148 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language
2.2% 2024/25[17]
SEN support
8.9% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan
1.5% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
20.6% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
91.1%[18]
Mixed
5.6%[18]
Asian
1.2%[18]
Black
0.3%[18]
Any other ethnic group
0.3%[18]
Unclassified
1.4%[18]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

  1. Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  2. Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  17. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  18. Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.