The Bulmershe School[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 51 50.6 2025/26[2]
- A-level average grade
- AL B- B- 2024/25[3]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 50.6 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 53.4% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 16.3% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 50.7[5] | 56.3%[5] |
A level (16–18)
- A-level average grade
- B- 2024/25[3]
- AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
- 26.2% 2024/25[3]
Destinations after GCSEs
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 93% 2022/23[6]
- School sixth form
- 50% 2022/23[6]
- Sixth-form college
- 5% 2022/23[6]
- Further education college
- 35% 2022/23[6]
- Apprenticeship
- 1% 2022/23[6]
- Employment
- 2% 2022/23[6]
Destinations after 16–18 study
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 88% 2022/23[7]
- UK higher education
- 53% 2022/23[7]
- Education
- 54% 2022/23[7]
- Apprenticeship
- 14% 2022/23[7]
- Employment
- 20% 2022/23[7]
Higher education after 16–18 study
- Progressed to higher education
- 74% 2021/22[8]
- Top third of most selective universities
- 17% 2021/22[8]
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
No published data for this school.
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 2.8 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Applications (any preference)
- 662 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences
- 206 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Places offered
- 233 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences per place
- 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[9]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 682[9] | 201[9] | 248[9] | 2.8[9] | 0.8[9] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 814[9] | 245[9] | 248[9] | 3.3[9] | 1.0[9] |
Admissions
- Application deadline
- 31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[10]
- Places (published admission number), 11+ entry
- 240 Entry Sept 2027[10]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Academy converter[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 1400[1]
- Trust
- THE CORVUS LEARNING TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Wokingham[1]
- Website
- http://www.thebulmersheschool.com/[1]
- District
- Wokingham[11]
- Postcode
- RG5 3EU[1]
- URN
- 149611[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 1506 2024/25[12]
- English as an additional language
- 26% 2024/25[12]
- SEN support
- 6.2% 2024/25[12]
- EHC plan
- 2.9% 2024/25[12]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 16% 2024/25[12]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 53.3%[13]
- Mixed
- 9.7%[13]
- Asian
- 25.1%[13]
- Black
- 5.6%[13]
- Any other ethnic group
- 3.7%[13]
- Unclassified
- 2.7%[13]
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.
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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 destinations. 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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: 16-18 progression to higher education. Period 2021/22, final. 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.
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bulmershe.reactfiles.co.uk: bulmershe.reactfiles.co.uk — Admission Arrangements 27-28 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16.
Licence: copyright-quoted.
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Children must be living in the designated area at the closing date of 31 October 2026 to be considered under this criterion. (p. 3)
The PAN for 2027 is 240 Making an application for Year 7 September 2027 for The Bulmershe School Applications to this school are in accordance with a coordinated scheme determined by the Local Authority (LA) within which the applicant resides, their home LA. (p. 1)
- 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.