The Blue Coat School Basingstoke[1]
Secondary · ages 11–16
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 35 35.2 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 35.2 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 24% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 4.7% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
Ofsted
No published data for this school.
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[5]
- Applications (any preference)
- 159 Entry Sept 2026[5]
- First preferences
- 55 Entry Sept 2026[5]
- Places offered
- 180 Entry Sept 2026[5]
- First preferences per place
- 0.3 Entry Sept 2026[5]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Academy sponsor led[1]
- Ages
- 11–16[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 1000[1]
- Trust
- SOUTH FARNHAM EDUCATIONAL TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Hampshire[1]
- Website
- www.tbcsbasingstoke.org[1]
- District
- Basingstoke and Deane[6]
- Postcode
- RG22 6HA[1]
- URN
- 150839[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 896 2024/25[7]
- English as an additional language
- 15.6% 2024/25[7]
- SEN support
- 14.5% 2024/25[7]
- EHC plan
- 3.5% 2024/25[7]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 34.3% 2024/25[7]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 73.7%[8]
- Mixed
- 5.7%[8]
- Asian
- 7.9%[8]
- Black
- 10.2%[8]
- Any other ethnic group
- 2.2%[8]
- Unclassified
- 0.4%[8]
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.
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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: 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.