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Casterton College Rutland

SecondaryAges 11–16Academy

Great Casterton, PE9 4AT · Rutland local authority

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Its letter
76%
of England’s secondaries have lower GCSE results
Getting in
126/126
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 84%)
How full
857 pupils
95% of its 900 places
Free school meals
16%
16 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about Casterton College Rutland

  • Its own letter, A−: GCSE results better than 76% of England’s secondary schools
  • 56% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 9 points above England’s schools
  • 16% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 30%)
  • Ofsted: Good, September 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (126 of 126)
  • Progress 8 of +0.17 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did about as well at GCSE as pupils nationally with the same results at 11
  • Homes in its postcode sector (PE9 4) sold for a median £375,000; Great Casterton’s is £597,500

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 186 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Casterton College Rutland beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 51.9

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 77% of schools · Rutland avg 49.1

20304050607080England avg 47.3Casterton College Rutland 51.9

Grade 5+ in English and maths 56%

A strong pass · higher than 74% of schools · Rutland avg 50%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Casterton College Rutland 56%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
47.8
2024/25
48.7
2025/26
51.9

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

+0.17: about average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 25 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
36.1England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
54.4England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths75%
England’s schools 66% · Rutland 69% · a standard pass

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Casterton College Rutland?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

126
families put it first for September 2026
151
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s secondaries: 84%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (36), 2020 (46), 2021 (109), 2022 (1), 2024 (1), 2025 (8). 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. Casterton College Rutland sets the admissions rules. Apply through Rutland council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for secondary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.26 per place
78% got their first choice
1.26 per place
78% got their first choice
1.10 per place
87% got their first choice
1.02 per place
91% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
Casterton College Rutland
0.83 per place
100% got their first choice
0.81 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

872 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.

SEN support
18.4%England 14%
EHC plan
1.6%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
3.9%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
17%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 51%Boys 49%
Its letter

Casterton College Rutland’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths A−Better than 76% of 3,224 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, September 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), March 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Casterton College Rutland

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in PE9 4, the school’s postcode sector

Great Casterton property prices →
£375,000
median sale, 210 sales in 36 months · Great Casterton £597,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K2010201520202025PE9 4
PE9 4Great Casterton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£475K
Semi-detached
£295K
Terraced
£263K
PE9 4Great Casterton

Homes in PE9 4 sell for well under Great Casterton’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

2 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB+B−A−Casterton College Rutland
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Great Casterton, PE9 4AT

Casterton College Rutland: common questions

Is Casterton College Rutland a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its GCSE results are better than 76% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is A−), with an Attainment 8 of 51.9 and 56% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, September 2023.

How hard is it to get into Casterton College Rutland?

For September 2026, 126 families put Casterton College Rutland first and all of them were offered a place; 151 places were offered in all.

What is Casterton College Rutland’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (September 2023).

How much do houses cost near Casterton College Rutland?

Homes in its postcode sector, PE9 4, sold for a median £375,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (210 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; Great Casterton’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.