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Woking High School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formSurrey, South East · Woking GU21 4TJTrust: Woking High School Academy TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,205of 1,050 places
Free school meals
18.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
233
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 24 April 2025Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Woking High School (URN 125270, until 1 August 2013).

What the data says

Woking High School has no sixth form. Of the 238 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 74% moved to a sixth form college, 13% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 74% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Media Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 21% of the year group took it, against 4% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were well above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 54.3 against 46.1 across England and 50.8 in Surrey, with 61% 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 Surrey and England.

Woking High School
Surrey
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureWoking High SchoolSurreyEngland
Pupils in the cohort23811,758607,348
Any sustained destination95%94%92%
Stayed in education93%89%86%
— school sixth form5%29%34%
— sixth form college74%32%13%
— further education college13%26%37%
— other education1%3%2%
Apprenticeship1%2%3%
Employment1%2%3%
No sustained destination3%4%6%
Destination unknown1%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureWoking High SchoolSurreyEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)54.350.846.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths61%55%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths78%74%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects37%44%41%
EBacc average point score4.844.554.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort20%15%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils34.932.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils59.154.250.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language13%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
Mathematics22697%88%42%22%84%
English Language22697%89%22%20%82%
English Literature22496%86%25%21%83%
Business Studies14462%18%23%20%78%
Combined Science11549%65%5%9%60%
Geography11047%41%41%25%79%
Physics10746%23%56%46%100%
Chemistry10746%23%57%47%99%
Biology10746%23%53%45%100%
History9239%41%38%26%71%
Religious Studies8235%31%28%32%76%
Computer Science6126%13%46%30%97%
Statistics5724%5%82%20%100%
Media Studies4921%4%14%20%55%
Spanish4419%19%52%27%91%
French3917%18%56%29%95%
Art and Design3716%7%49%24%86%
Physical Education3515%11%49%24%86%
Latin3415%1%62%74%91%
Astronomy2912%0%41%29%76%
Drama209%7%40%27%80%
Food Preparation and Nutrition125%8%92%21%100%
Music115%5%100%33%100%
Chinese31%1%75%
Arabic21%1%47%
Polish21%1%84%
Russian10%0%87%
Italian10%0%53%
German10%5%33%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Childcare Skills26
Hospitality / Catering Studies22
Computer Appreciation / Introduction16

Other secondary schools in Surrey

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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.