Frogmore Community College

About Frogmore Community College

Frogmore Community College holds a Good rating from Ofsted, but its academic outcomes tell a more complicated story. The school’s Progress 8 score, which measures how much pupils improve between the end of primary school and GCSEs compared with the national average, stands at -0.35. That places it in the ‘below average’ banding nationally, and means pupils here typically leave with about a third of a grade less per subject than their peers across England. In the local authority of Hampshire, where the average Progress 8 score is -0.17, Frogmore ranks 42nd out of 80 similar schools. Within the borough of Hart, it sits at the bottom of the five state secondaries. The school’s Attainment 8 score, which reflects average GCSE results across eight subjects, is 42.2, and just over half of pupils (55.8%) achieved a grade 5 or above in English and maths — the basics measure that many parents look at first.

Digging deeper into the data, the school’s weakest subject area is English, where the Progress 8 component is -0.55, followed by maths at -0.37. The EBacc average point score, which covers English, maths, sciences, a language and history or geography, is 3.47, and only 8.7% of pupils entered the full EBacc combination. That’s a very low take-up rate, and it suggests the curriculum is not pushing the academic breadth that selective or higher-performing schools often prioritise. On the open element of Progress 8 — which includes other GCSE subjects not in the EBacc — the school fares slightly better at -0.12, indicating that pupils perform closer to the national average in non-core subjects. Nationally, Frogmore ranks in the bottom quarter of all state secondaries for Progress 8, sitting at the 74th percentile from the bottom. In the South East region, it’s in the bottom 28% of 461 schools.

Frogmore is an 11-16 mixed state secondary in Hart, Hampshire, with 702 pupils on roll. It offers a wide range of facilities including a theatre, swimming pool, astro turf, tennis courts and a chapel, which is unusual for a non-faith school. Sports provision includes rowing, martial arts and gymnastics, and there are over a dozen clubs from DofE and Young Enterprise to gardening and film club. The school is not oversubscribed based on its ranking data, and with a Progress 8 score well below the local authority average, it may appeal most to families who value the breadth of extracurricular opportunities over headline exam results. Parents should note that the school does not have a sixth form, so pupils will need to move on after Year 11. The headteacher is listed as Matthew Venton Laura Goulborn, which may indicate a co-headship or a recent change in leadership.

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