The Forest School[1]
Secondary · ages 11–16
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 43 43.1 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 43.1 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 41.8% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 8.2% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
Ofsted
No published data for this school.
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 3.5 Entry Sept 2026[4]
- Applications (any preference)
- 766 Entry Sept 2026[4]
- First preferences
- 204 Entry Sept 2026[4]
- Places offered
- 216 Entry Sept 2026[4]
- First preferences per place
- 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[4]
Admissions
- Application deadline, 11+ entry
- 31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[5]
- Places (published admission number), 11+ entry
- 228 Entry Sept 2027[5]
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
- 1140[1]
- Trust
- HORSHAM LEARNING ALLIANCE[1]
- Local authority
- West Sussex[1]
- Website
- http://www.theforestschool.com/[1]
- District
- Horsham[6]
- Postcode
- RH13 5NT[1]
- URN
- 151923[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 83.5%[7]
- Mixed
- 7.6%[7]
- Asian
- 4.4%[7]
- Black
- 1.4%[7]
- Any other ethnic group
- 0.7%[7]
- Unclassified
- 2.3%[7]
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.
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.
- 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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theforestschool.reactfiles.co.uk: theforestschool.reactfiles.co.uk — Admissions Policy Forest School 2027 Entry (PDF). Period 2026-10-16.
Licence: copyright-quoted.
Quotes (2)
To be considered on time, applications must be submitted to WSCC via the Common Application Form by the published deadline of 23:59 on 31 October 2026. (p. 2)
The Published Admission Number (PAN) for entry to Year 7 in September 2027 is 228. (p. 2)
- 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: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.