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Carterton Community College

West Oxfordshire, OX18 1BUSecondaryAges 11–18MixedState
Ofsted Rating
Good
Mar 2022
Progress 8
-0.61
Well below average
−20+2
Competition
0.9×
Not oversubscribed
111 1st-choice / 121 places
Ranking
#2,744
of 3,141 nationally

About Carterton Community College

Carterton Community College’s headline Progress 8 score of -0. 61 sits well below the Oxfordshire local authority average of -0. 07, placing it in the bottom half of the county’s 46 state secondaries. That gap is significant: pupils here leave with roughly half a grade less per subject than the typical Oxfordshire student, and the school ranks 36th out of 46 in the LA. The picture is consistent across individual subjects too — English Progress 8 is -0. 8, maths is -0. 46, and the open element (non-EBacc subjects) is -0. 97. Only the EBacc bucket, at -0. 32, comes closer to the LA norm. The school’s overall Progress 8 banding is officially ‘Well below average’, and it sits at the bottom of West Oxfordshire’s six secondaries. That said, the school is not without recent improvement: its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2022 upgraded it from Requires Improvement to Good across all five graded categories, including behaviour, personal development and leadership.

Key Details

School TypeSecondary (State)
Age Range11 to 18 years
GenderMixed
Religious CharacterDoes not apply
AddressUpavon Way, Carterton, West Oxfordshire, OX18 1BU
HeadteacherMatthew Maudsley
Local AuthorityOxfordshire
Number of Pupils743
Free School Meals (FSM)19.4%
School Capacity743 / 909 (82% full)
Sixth FormYes

Ofsted Inspection Breakdown

2 Mar 2022
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Overall Effectiveness
Good
Quality of Education
Good
Behaviour & Attitudes
Good
Personal Development
Good
Leadership & Management
Good
Sixth Form Provision
Good

Source: Ofsted, 5 May 2022. Ratings: 1=Outstanding, 2=Good, 3=Requires Improvement, 4=Inadequate.

SEND Support

AutismDyslexiaMental HealthSpeech & LanguageHearingPhysicalLearning DifficultyOther

Source: Department for Education, 2024/25. Support availability based on current student population.

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Carterton Community College has been rated "Good" by Ofsted. This means the school provides a good standard of education and effectively supports all pupils to succeed.