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Icknield Community College[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 44 44.3 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
44.3 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
46.2% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
12.7% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
+0.24 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 51.2[5] 51.5%[5]
2023/24 47.2[3] 47%[3] +0.24[3]
2022/23 47.4[6] 48%[6] +0.03[6]
2021/22 50.9[7] 48%[7] +0.19[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
96% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
22% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
22% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
37% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
8% 2022/23[8]
Employment
6% 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 96%[9] 25%[9] 31%[9] 28%[9] 4%[9] 5%[9]
2020/21 95%[10] 19%[10] 33%[10] 28%[10] 5%[10] 8%[10]
2019/20 98%[11] 24%[11] 27%[11] 38%[11] 3%[11] 4%[11]
2018/19 94%[12] 36%[12] 15%[12] 32%[12] 6%[12] 4%[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
3 Dec 2024[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
21 Jan 2025[13]
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
Standards maintained[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
12 Mar 2019[14] Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14] No overall grade[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
1.8 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference)
321 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences
158 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered
180 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place
0.9 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 309[15] 148[15] 161[15] 1.9[15] 0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2024 315[15] 162[15] 189[15] 1.7[15] 0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2023 279[15] 121[15] 142[15] 2.0[15] 0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2022 287[15] 162[15] 166[15] 1.7[15] 1.0[15]

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
700[1]
Trust
ACER TRUST[1]
Local authority
Oxfordshire[1]
Website
http://www.icknield.oxon.sch.uk/[1]
District
South Oxfordshire[16]
Postcode
OX49 5RB[1]
URN
143984[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
766 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language
3.3% 2024/25[17]
SEN support
23.8% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan
3.3% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
14.6% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
90.2%[18]
Mixed
6.5%[18]
Asian
0.9%[18]
Black
1%[18]
Any other ethnic group
0.9%[18]
Unclassified
0.6%[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 2024/25. 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.