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Cirencester Deer Park School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formGloucestershire, South West · Cirencester GL7 1XBTrust: Corinium Education TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,020of 1,045 places
Free school meals
16.2%
Year 11 cohort 2025
189
Ofsted
School remains Good, 18 January 2023Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Cirencester Deer Park School (URN 115771, until 1 April 2011).

What the data says

Cirencester Deer Park School has no sixth form. Of the 207 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 55% moved to a sixth form college, 12% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 55% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 21% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 52.5 against 46.1 across England and 50.3 in Gloucestershire, with 56% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Gloucestershire and England.

Cirencester Deer Park School
Gloucestershire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureCirencester Deer Park SchoolGloucestershireEngland
Pupils in the cohort2076,782607,348
Any sustained destination94%93%92%
Stayed in education89%85%86%
— school sixth form19%46%34%
— sixth form college55%11%13%
— further education college12%26%37%
— other education3%2%2%
Apprenticeship1%4%3%
Employment4%4%3%
No sustained destination3%5%6%
Destination unknown2%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureCirencester Deer Park SchoolGloucestershireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)52.550.346.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths56%53%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths81%71%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects33%31%41%
EBacc average point score4.734.404.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort15%19%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils37.634.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils55.154.050.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language3%9%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language18698%89%25%20%87%
Mathematics18698%88%27%22%83%
English Literature18497%86%23%21%85%
Combined Science13571%65%12%9%76%
History11661%41%32%26%73%
Geography9148%41%41%25%77%
Spanish6032%19%43%27%95%
Physical Education5429%11%17%24%54%
Biology5127%23%59%45%98%
Chemistry5026%23%56%47%100%
Physics5026%23%52%46%100%
Food Preparation and Nutrition4122%8%17%21%76%
Art and Design4021%7%20%24%90%
Drama3820%7%21%27%82%
Design and Technology2714%11%11%23%81%
Religious Studies2111%31%43%32%86%
Music179%5%41%33%82%
Statistics168%5%44%20%100%
Textiles126%2%25%27%83%
German105%5%60%33%100%
Portuguese21%0%50%
Russian11%0%87%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Small Business Management53
Computer Appreciation / Introduction28
Childcare Skills27
Music Technology (Electronic)15
Additional Mathematics FSMQ8

Other secondary schools in Gloucestershire

Archway School

Community school · sixth form · 1,053 pupils

84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.3

Balcarras School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,427 pupils

92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 58.5

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.