The Swan School[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 60 60.1 2025/26[2]
- A-level average grade
- AL B- B- 2024/25[3]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 60.1 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 73.2% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 30.7% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- +0.55 2023/24[4]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[5]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[5]
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 55.4[6] | 68.3%[6] | ||
| 2023/24 | 55.7[4] | 66.4%[4] | +0.55[4] |
A level (16–18)
- A-level average grade
- B- 2024/25[3]
- AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
- 10.7% 2024/25[3]
| Year | A-level average grade | AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/24 | B-[7] | 25%[7] |
| 2022/23 | B[8] | 20%[8] |
Destinations after 16–18 study
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 92% 2022/23[9]
- UK higher education
- 58% 2022/23[9]
- Education
- 75% 2022/23[9]
- Apprenticeship
- 0% 2022/23[9]
- Employment
- 17% 2022/23[9]
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[10]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[10]
- Report published
- 28 Nov 2023[10]
- Personal development
- Outstanding[10]
- Quality of education
- Good[10]
- Overall effectiveness
- Good[10]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding[10]
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes[10]
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Outstanding[10]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding[10]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 4.4 Entry Sept 2026[11]
- Applications (any preference)
- 765 Entry Sept 2026[11]
- First preferences
- 165 Entry Sept 2026[11]
- Places offered
- 175 Entry Sept 2026[11]
- First preferences per place
- 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[11]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 838[11] | 233[11] | 178[11] | 4.7[11] | 1.3[11] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 758[11] | 185[11] | 173[11] | 4.4[11] | 1.1[11] |
| Entry Sept 2023 | 781[11] | 185[11] | 177[11] | 4.4[11] | 1.0[11] |
| Entry Sept 2022 | 635[11] | 181[11] | 177[11] | 3.6[11] | 1.0[11] |
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 1260[1]
- Trust
- RIVER LEARNING TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire[1]
- Website
- www.theswanschool.org.uk[1]
- District
- Oxford[12]
- Postcode
- OX2 7WP[1]
- URN
- 147203[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 952 2024/25[13]
- English as an additional language
- 31% 2024/25[13]
- SEN support
- 15.9% 2024/25[13]
- EHC plan
- 3.3% 2024/25[13]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 21.8% 2024/25[13]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 44%[14]
- Mixed
- 15.8%[14]
- Asian
- 20.2%[14]
- Black
- 10.1%[14]
- Any other ethnic group
- 7.7%[14]
- Unclassified
- 2.2%[14]
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: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2024/25, final. 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: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: 16-18 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. 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.
- 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.