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St Dominic's School

St Dominic's School

Special schoolAges 7–19AcademySixth form

Hambledon, GU8 4DX · Surrey local authority

Hambledon’s Schools page →

Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
How full
183 pupils
122% of its 150 places
Free school meals
34%
34 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Dominic's School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 183 pupils for 150 places
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (GU8 4) sold for a median £750,000; Hambledon’s is £650,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 22 pupils

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

Attainment 8 23.2

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

20304050607080England avg 47.3St Dominic's 23.2

Grade 5+ in English and maths 18%

A strong pass · higher than 2% of schools · Surrey avg 56%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%St Dominic's 18%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
19
2024/25
20.6
2025/26
23.2

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-0.67: below 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).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths32%
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

162 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
1.2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
35.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 12%Boys 88%
Its letter

No letter for St Dominic's 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.

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Sixth formStrong standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, May 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Dominic's School

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

Home prices in GU8 4, the school’s postcode sector

Hambledon property prices →
£750,000
median sale, 164 sales in 36 months · Hambledon £650,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K£900K2010201520202025GU8 4
GU8 4Hambledon

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1.1M
Semi-detached
£568K
Terraced
£495K
GU8 4Hambledon

Homes in GU8 4 sell for well over Hambledon’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 miNBSt Dominic's School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Hambledon, GU8 4DX

St Dominic's School: common questions

What is St Dominic's School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near St Dominic's School?

Homes in its postcode sector, GU8 4, sold for a median £750,000 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; Hambledon’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.