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The Bishop David Brown School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 48 48.1 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
48.1 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
45.7% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
12.3% 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 45[5] 42.3%[5]
2023/24 43.4[3] 37.5%[3] +0.03[3]
2022/23 41.4[6] 31%[6] -0.26[6]
2021/22 49.1[7] 45%[7] +0.20[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
92% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
5% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
55% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
24% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
5% 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] 4%[9] 63%[9] 25%[9] 1%[9] 4%[9]
2020/21 95%[10] 3%[10] 57%[10] 29%[10] 4%[10] 3%[10]
2019/20 92%[11] 3%[11] 50%[11] 33%[11] 7%[11] 0%[11]
2018/19 95%[12] 1%[12] 56%[12] 32%[12] 1%[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
6 Mar 2024[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
25 Apr 2024[13]
Safeguarding is effective
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
School remains Good[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
8 Jan 2019[14] S5 Inspection[14] Good[14]
21 Feb 2018[15] Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15] No overall grade[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
2.2 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference)
342 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences
116 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered
158 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place
0.7 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 356[16] 113[16] 144[16] 2.5[16] 0.8[16]
Entry Sept 2024 399[16] 143[16] 170[16] 2.3[16] 0.8[16]
Entry Sept 2023 410[16] 150[16] 211[16] 1.9[16] 0.7[16]
Entry Sept 2022 310[16] 101[16] 235[16] 1.3[16] 0.4[16]

Admissions

Application deadline
31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[17]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy converter[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
750[1]
Trust
UNITY SCHOOLS TRUST[1]
Local authority
Surrey[1]
Website
www.bdb.surrey.sch.uk[1]
District
Woking[18]
Postcode
GU21 5RF[1]
URN
142284[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
805 2024/25[19]
English as an additional language
25% 2024/25[19]
SEN support
18.3% 2024/25[19]
EHC plan
4% 2024/25[19]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
27.2% 2024/25[19]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
48.1%[20]
Mixed
6.6%[20]
Asian
38.1%[20]
Black
3.8%[20]
Any other ethnic group
3.3%[20]
Unclassified
0.1%[20]

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. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2017/18. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. 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.
  17. bdb-unity.co.uk: bdb-unity.co.uk — Admissions Policy 2027-28 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16. Licence: copyright-quoted.
    Quote
    The closing date for applications is 31st October 2026. (p. 2)
  18. 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.
  19. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  20. 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.