d'Overbroeck's[1]
Independent · ages 11–19
Headline results
- A-level average grade
- AL A- A- 2024/25[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 29.5 2025/26[3]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 53.1% 2025/26[3]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 15.6% 2025/26[3]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
IGCSEs don't count towards Attainment 8, so it understates many independent schools.
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 64.8[5] | 91.3%[5] | |
| 2023/24 | 64.3[6] | 90.9%[6] | |
| 2022/23 | 33.6[7] | 35%[7] | |
| 2021/22 | 34.8[8] | 38%[8] |
A level (16–18)
- A-level average grade
- A- 2024/25[2]
- AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
- 33% 2024/25[2]
- All results, 2020/21
- Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
- All results, 2019/20
- Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
| Year | A-level average grade | AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/24 | B+[10] | 27.7%[10] |
| 2022/23 | B+[11] | 34.4%[11] |
| 2021/22 | A-[12] | 32.1%[12] |
| 2018/19 | B+[13] | 30.6%[13] |
Destinations after 16–18 study
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 75.5% 2023/24[14]
- UK higher education
- 60.6% 2023/24[14]
- Education
- 64.9% 2023/24[14]
- Apprenticeship
- 0% 2023/24[14]
- Employment
- 10.6% 2023/24[14]
| Left in | Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment | UK higher education | Education | Apprenticeship | Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 80.3%[14] | 66%[14] | 69.7%[14] | 0%[14] | 10.6%[14] |
| 2021/22 | 72.1%[14] | 52.9%[14] | 57.6%[14] | 0.6%[14] | 14%[14] |
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.
For independent schools the DfE publishes destinations after 16–18 study only: no destinations after GCSEs and no university progression figures (top third, Russell Group, Oxbridge).
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI)[15]
ISI inspection
- Inspection
- October 2024[16]
- Framework
- Framework from September 2023[16]
- Leadership and governance
- Standards not met[16]
- Quality of education
- Standards met[16]
- Health and wellbeing
- Standards not met[16]
- Social and economic education
- Standards met[16]
- Safeguarding
- Standards not met[16]
Health and wellbeing
- ISI recommended: The school should ensure the personal development programme, including RSE, is well-resourced and planned to meet pupils' needs.
- ISI recommended: The school should update its attendance policy to include the latest statutory guidance and make it accessible to all.
Safeguarding
- ISI recommended: The school should ensure safer recruitment checks are correctly recorded and the single central record of appointments is properly managed.
Previous ISI inspections: 2025, 2021, 2017, 2013 (2025 report, 2021 report, 2017 report, 2013 report).
Findings of the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), restated in our own words: not ISI's wording. Read the full report on ISI's website.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
Fees
No fees published on the school's website that we could verify.
- Type
- Other independent school[1]
- Ages
- 11–19[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- Boarding school[1]
- Capacity
- 785[1]
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire[1]
- Website
- www.doverbroecks.com[1]
- Nursery classes
- No Nursery Classes[15]
- Special classes
- No Special Classes[15]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[15]
- District
- Oxford[17]
- Postcode
- OX2 7PL[1]
- URN
- 123318[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 692 2024/25[18]
- SEN support
- 28.9% 2024/25[18]
- EHC plan
- 0.1% 2024/25[18]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[18]
Sources
- 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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- 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.
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: A level and other 16 to 18 results 2020/21. Period 2020/21.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer exam series was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, and alternative processes were set up to award grades.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: 16-18 destination measures: 16-19 study leavers institution level destinations. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments (independent schools' inspectorate and provision). Period 2026-10-17, published 2026-10-17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Independent Schools Inspectorate: School inspection report, d'Overbroeck's, October 2024. Period 2026-10-17. Licence: all-rights-reserved (restated only, D71).
- 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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.