The Windsor Boys' School

State-fundedAcademy converter · Windsor and Maidenhead · SL4 5EH · Boys only

Secondary with sixth form · ages 13–18

The Windsor Boys' School is a state-funded school in Windsor and Maidenhead, teaching pupils aged 13 to 18. It admits boys only.

GCSE results

Percentiles rank the school against every school in England with a published score.
2023–242022–232021–223-year average
Progress 8+0.1460th percentile+0.0051st percentile-0.2331st percentile-0.0348th percentile
Attainment 847.561st percentile48.564th percentile49.055th percentile48.361st percentile

Progress 8 for 2023–24 was +0.14 — average, the 60th percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.14 of a grade per subject higher than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.

The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs -0.05 to +0.34. That range includes zero, so on this year's figures the school cannot be told apart from an average one — treat small differences between schools with care. It has risen in each of the years shown (2021–22 to 2023–24), which is a more convincing signal than any single year.

Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.

Other GCSE measures, 2023–24.
Grade 5+ in English & Maths48%61st percentile
EBacc average point score4.2864th percentile

Progress 8 by where pupils started

A school can post a respectable overall score while coasting one group and carrying the average on another. The row that matters to you is the one your own child sits in.

Pupils grouped by their results at the end of primary school.
2023–242022–232021–223-year average
Lower starters+0.13-0.08-0.45-0.13
Middle starters+0.15+0.07-0.14+0.03
Higher starters+0.15-0.12-0.26-0.08

How hard it is to get in

Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.

Attendance

2023–2024 · lower is better. A pupil is persistently absent if they miss a tenth or more of sessions.
Overall absence9.4%38th percentile
Persistently absent pupils25.4%50th percentile

Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is above the norm.

Ofsted

School remains Good

The outcome of an ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school's previous grade still holds rather than issuing a new one.

What these figures don't tell you

The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.

Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.

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