Reading Girls' School[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 52 52.2 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 52.2 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 57.7% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 20.9% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- +0.05 2023/24[3]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 24 Nov 2021[8]
- Type
- Academy First Section 5[8]
- Report published
- 20 Jan 2022[8]
- Personal development
- Good[8]
- Quality of education
- Good[8]
- Overall effectiveness
- Good[8]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding[8]
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes[8]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding[8]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 1.8 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Applications (any preference)
- 281 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences
- 101 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Places offered
- 154 Entry Sept 2026[9]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Academy sponsor led[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Girls[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 947[1]
- Trust
- THE THAMES LEARNING TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Reading[1]
- Website
- www.readinggirlsschool.co.uk[1]
- District
- Reading[10]
- Postcode
- RG2 7PY[1]
- URN
- 144610[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 905 2024/25[11]
- English as an additional language
- 43.1% 2024/25[11]
- SEN support
- 21.7% 2024/25[11]
- EHC plan
- 1.9% 2024/25[11]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 28.3% 2024/25[11]
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.
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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 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.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2021/22. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- 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.
- 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.