Barnwood Park School
Gloucester, GL4 3QU · Gloucestershire local authority
Gloucester’s School Grade B better than 64% of towns in England
What stands out about Barnwood Park School
- Its own letter, C+: GCSE results better than 35% of England’s secondary schools
- 39% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 8 points below England’s schools
- 78% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (122 of 156)
- Homes in its postcode sector (GL4 3) sold for a median £298,750; Gloucester’s is £255,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 167 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Barnwood Park beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 43.4
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 35% of schools · Gloucestershire avg 51.5
Grade 5+ in English and maths 39%
A strong pass · higher than 34% of schools · Gloucestershire avg 54%
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 45 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Barnwood Park School?
78% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (139), 2020 (105), 2021 (89), 2022 (128), 2023 (103), 2024 (47), 2025 (33), 2026 (34). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Greenshaw Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Gloucestershire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
78% got their first choice
Gloucester and Gloucestershire, side by side
2025/26All 40 graded secondaries in Gloucestershire. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Gloucester’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pate's Grammar School | A+ | 6% | 82.4 |
| Sir Thomas Rich's School | A+ | 6% | 75.2 |
| Denmark Road High School | A+ | 6% | 74.8 |
| Stroud High School | A+ | 3% | 74.7 |
| The Crypt School | A+ | 4% | 73.3 |
| Marling School | A+ | 4% | 73.2 |
| Ribston Hall High School | A+ | 8% | 67.6 |
| Balcarras School | A | 6% | 62.1 |
| The High School Leckhampton | A | 10% | 59.7 |
| The Cotswold Academy | A | 15% | 58.7 |
| Farmor's School | A | 13% | 54.8 |
| Churchdown School | A− | 18% | 53.3 |
| Cirencester Deer Park School | A− | 16% | 51.4 |
| Katharine Lady Berkeley's School | B+ | 11% | 50.7 |
| Chipping Campden School | B+ | 20% | 50.4 |
| Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre | B | 24% | 49.6 |
| Cleeve School | B+ | 21% | 49.4 |
| Henley Bank High School | B | 32% | 48.9 |
| Severn Vale School | B | 23% | 48.7 |
| Cirencester Kingshill School | B+ | 20% | 48.4 |
| Thomas Keble School | B− | 18% | 47.3 |
| Five Acres High School | B− | 28% | 45.9 |
| Maidenhill School | B | 26% | 45.6 |
| Chosen Hill School | C+ | 18% | 45.1 |
| Rednock School | C+ | 22% | 44.8 |
| Holmleigh Park High School | C+ | 35% | 44.5 |
| Pittville School | C | 35% | 44.2 |
| Dene Magna and Sixth Form | C | 22% | 44.1 |
| Winchcombe School | C+ | 22% | 44 |
| Barnwood Park School | C+ | 36% | 43.4 |
| The Dean Academy | C | 34% | 43.1 |
| Sir William Romney's School | C− | 22% | 42.4 |
| Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre | C | 24% | 42.4 |
| Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre | C | 17% | 41.9 |
| Gloucester Academy | C | 42% | 41.5 |
| Archway School | D | 29% | 41.4 |
| St Peter's Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre | C− | 25% | 40.9 |
| Tewkesbury Academy | D | 25% | 38.4 |
| All Saints' Academy, Cheltenham | D | 39% | 37.7 |
| SGS Forest High School | D− | 37% | 32.9 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025884 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Barnwood Park School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Not inspected yet (a new school, or one that changed status recently).
Living near Barnwood Park School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in GL4 3, the school’s postcode sector
Gloucester property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in GL4 3 sell for well over Gloucester’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
22 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Gloucester, GL4 3QU
Barnwood Park School: common questions
Is Barnwood Park School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its GCSE results are better than 35% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is C+), with an Attainment 8 of 43.4 and 39% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools.
How hard is it to get into Barnwood Park School?
For September 2026, 156 families put Barnwood Park School first and 122 of them were offered a place; 164 places were offered in all.
How much do houses cost near Barnwood Park School?
Homes in its postcode sector, GL4 3, sold for a median £298,750 over the 36 months to August 2026 (164 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Gloucester’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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