Sir Thomas Fremantle School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 42 41.6 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 41.6 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 39.8% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 7.1% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.03 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	40.4[5]	24.2%[5]
2023/24	44.3[3]	41.6%[3]	+0.03[3]
2022/23	41.1[6]	42%[6]	-0.16[6]
2021/22	53.1[7]	44%[7]	+0.34[7]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C 2021/22[8]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 9.6% 2021/22[8]
All results, 2020/21: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
All results, 2019/20: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2018/19	D[10]	4.2%[10]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 91% 2022/23[11]
School sixth form: 39% 2022/23[11]
Sixth-form college: 0% 2022/23[11]
Further education college: 44% 2022/23[11]
Apprenticeship: 6% 2022/23[11]
Employment: 2% 2022/23[11]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	95%[12]	43%[12]	1%[12]	42%[12]	1%[12]	3%[12]
2020/21	95%[13]	59%[13]	0%[13]	30%[13]	1%[13]	2%[13]
2019/20	96%[14]	61%[14]	0%[14]	34%[14]	0%[14]	0%[14]
2018/19	90%[15]	57%[15]	0%[15]	27%[15]	1%[15]	4%[15]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 84% 2019/20[16]
UK higher education: 48% 2019/20[16]
Education: 52% 2019/20[16]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2019/20[16]
Employment: 29% 2019/20[16]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2018/19	85%[17]	38%[17]	53%[17]	12%[17]	21%[17]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 61% 2019/20[18]
Top third of most selective universities: 12% 2019/20[18]
Russell Group universities: 12% 2019/20[18]
Oxford or Cambridge: 0% 2019/20[18]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities	Russell Group universities	Oxford or Cambridge
2018/19	50%[19]	3%[19]	3%[19]	0%[19]

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: 8 May 2024[20]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[20]
Report published: 18 Jun 2024[20]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[20]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[20]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
11 Dec 2018[21]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[21]	No overall grade[21]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.5 Entry Sept 2026[22]
Applications (any preference): 347 Entry Sept 2026[22]
First preferences: 120 Entry Sept 2026[22]
Places offered: 139 Entry Sept 2026[22]
First preferences per place: 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[22]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	382[22]	147[22]	145[22]	2.6[22]	1.0[22]
Entry Sept 2024	334[22]	101[22]	136[22]	2.5[22]	0.7[22]
Entry Sept 2023	325[22]	106[22]	136[22]	2.4[22]	0.8[22]
Entry Sept 2022	319[22]	100[22]	146[22]	2.2[22]	0.7[22]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Capacity: 650[1]
Trust: SIR THOMAS FREMANTLE SCHOOL[1]
Local authority: Buckinghamshire[1]
Website: http://www.sirthomasfremantle.org/[1]
District: Buckinghamshire [23]
Postcode: MK18 3GH[1]
URN: 139663[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 632 2024/25[24]
English as an additional language: 8.7% 2024/25[24]
SEN support: 16.1% 2024/25[24]
EHC plan: 3.6% 2024/25[24]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 24.2% 2024/25[24]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 83.8%[25]
Mixed: 6.9%[25]
Asian: 2.6%[25]
Black: 4.4%[25]
Any other ethnic group: 1%[25]
Unclassified: 1.2%[25]

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.
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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.
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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.
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