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Philip Southcote School

Special schoolAges 11–19AcademySixth form

near Chertsey, KT15 2QH · Surrey local authority

Chertsey’s School Grade A− better than 79% of towns in England

How full
279 pupils
142% of its 196 places
Free school meals
43%
43 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Philip Southcote School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 279 pupils for 196 places
  • 43% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Outside any built-up area: listed with Chertsey, the nearest town
  • Homes in its postcode sector (KT15 2) sold for a median £395,000; Chertsey’s is £400,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 44 pupils

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

Attainment 8 5

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Surrey avg 51.8

20304050607080England avg 47.3Philip Southcote 5

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Surrey avg 56%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Philip Southcote 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2024/25
6.9
2025/26
5

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 21 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
5.8England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
4.3England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths2%
England’s schools 66% · Surrey 75% · 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.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

263 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
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
10.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
42.6%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 39%Boys 61%
Its letter

No letter for Philip Southcote School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

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).

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Philip Southcote School

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

Home prices in KT15 2, the school’s postcode sector

Chertsey property prices →
£395,000
median sale, 410 sales in 36 months · Chertsey £400,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K2010201520202025KT15 2Chertsey
KT15 2Chertsey

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£530K
Semi-detached
£474K
Terraced
£400K
Flat
£243K
KT15 2Chertsey

Homes in KT15 2 sell for about the same as Chertsey’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

13 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBDC+B+C−B−A−AAA+B−B−Philip Southcote School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

near Chertsey, KT15 2QH

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; Chertsey’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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