Oathall Community College[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 51 51.3 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 51.3 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 52.9% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 19.1% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.28 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	Progress 8
2024/25	51.6[5]	58%[5]
2023/24	50.6[3]	50%[3]	+0.28[3]
2022/23	51.3[6]	59%[6]	+0.26[6]
2021/22	51.8[7]	53%[7]	+0.25[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 94% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 3% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 30% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 55% 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	97%[9]	5%[9]	26%[9]	63%[9]	2%[9]	1%[9]
2020/21	93%[10]	5%[10]	34%[10]	50%[10]	2%[10]	2%[10]
2019/20	95%[11]	7%[11]	32%[11]	52%[11]	2%[11]	3%[11]
2018/19	93%[12]	6%[12]	51%[12]	27%[12]	4%[12]	3%[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: 13 Sep 2023[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 19 Oct 2023[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
15 Mar 2018[14]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14]	No overall grade[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.6 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference): 684 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences: 265 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered: 264 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place: 1.0 Entry Sept 2026[15]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	662[15]	255[15]	265[15]	2.5[15]	1.0[15]
Entry Sept 2024	659[15]	285[15]	273[15]	2.4[15]	1.0[15]
Entry Sept 2023	596[15]	247[15]	267[15]	2.2[15]	0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2022	687[15]	247[15]	270[15]	2.5[15]	0.9[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: 1350[1]
Local authority: West Sussex[1]
Website: http://www.oathall.org [1]
District: Mid Sussex [16]
Postcode: RH16 2AQ[1]
URN: 126085[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1303 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language: 7.5% 2024/25[17]
SEN support: 19.3% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan: 2.8% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 14.6% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 87.9%[18]
Mixed: 4.8%[18]
Asian: 3.1%[18]
Black: 2.8%[18]
Any other ethnic group: 0.7%[18]
Unclassified: 0.5%[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

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: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. 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: 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 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: 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.
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