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Lift Wishmore

Boys · ages 7–16Surrey, South East · Woking GU24 8NETrust: Lift SchoolsSchool website
Pupils on roll
92of 94 places
Free school meals
64.1%
Year 11 cohort 2025
13
Ofsted
Inspected, 24 September 2024Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Wishmore Cross School (URN 125462, until 1 September 2012).

What the data says

Of the 18 pupils who finished Year 11 at Lift Wishmore in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 28% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

39% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 5.5 against 46.1 across England and 50.8 in Surrey, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

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 Surrey and England.

Lift Wishmore
Surrey
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureLift WishmoreSurreyEngland
Pupils in the cohort1811,758607,348
Any sustained destination33%94%92%
Stayed in education33%89%86%
— school sixth form0%29%34%
— sixth form college0%32%13%
— further education college28%26%37%
— other education6%3%2%
Apprenticeship0%2%3%
Employment0%2%3%
No sustained destination39%4%6%
Destination unknown28%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureLift WishmoreSurreyEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)5.550.846.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%55%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%74%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%44%41%
EBacc average point score0.214.554.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort85%15%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils32.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils54.250.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language8%12%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
Physics862%23%0%46%0%
Biology754%23%0%45%14%
Mathematics754%88%0%22%14%
English Language646%89%0%20%0%

Other secondary schools in Surrey

Ash Manor School

Community school · 1,252 pupils

84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.7

Blenheim High School

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88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.4

Broadwater School

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86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.9

Carrington School

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90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.0

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.