The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College
near Rugby, CV21 1EH · Warwickshire local authority
Rugby’s School Grade B− better than 53% of towns in England
What stands out about The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College
- Its own letter, C+: GCSE results better than 36% of England’s secondary schools
- Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Outside any built-up area: listed with Rugby, the nearest town
- 84% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (167 of 199)
- Progress 8 of -0.28 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did less well at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (CV21 1) sold for a median £256,500; Rugby’s is £270,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 206 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 42.7
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 31% of schools · Warwickshire avg 50
Grade 5+ in English and maths 41%
A strong pass · higher than 39% of schools · Warwickshire avg 52%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-0.28: 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).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 76 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 The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College?
84% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (26), 2020 (54), 2021 (43), 2022 (3), 2023 (15), 2024 (20), 2025 (40), 2026 (32). 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. The school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Warwickshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
84% got their first choice
Rugby and Warwickshire, side by side
2025/26All 37 graded secondaries in Warwickshire. 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. Rugby’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford Girls' Grammar School | A+ | 3% | 81.9 |
| King Edward VI School | A+ | 3% | 81.1 |
| Rugby High School | A+ | 9% | 77.1 |
| Lawrence Sheriff School | A+ | 10% | 75.7 |
| Alcester Grammar School | A+ | 2% | 75.5 |
| North Leamington School | A | 18% | 56.9 |
| Kenilworth School and Sixth Form | A | 10% | 56.2 |
| Studley High School | A− | 18% | 51.7 |
| Higham Lane School | B+ | 17% | 51 |
| George Eliot Academy | B+ | 35% | 50.9 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Sixth Form College | B+ | 21% | 50.9 |
| Myton School | A− | 20% | 50.5 |
| Ashlawn School | B+ | 18% | 50.2 |
| Southam College | B | 19% | 49.9 |
| Alcester Academy | B+ | 21% | 48.9 |
| Etone College | B | 32% | 48.2 |
| Stratford Upon Avon School | B | 25% | 47.7 |
| The Queen Elizabeth Academy | B− | 31% | 46.6 |
| Houlton School | B | 20% | 46 |
| Ash Green School | B | 37% | 45.5 |
| Henley In Arden School | B− | 19% | 44.5 |
| Kineton High School | C+ | 22% | 43.9 |
| Rugby Free Secondary School | C | 26% | 43.5 |
| Shipston High School | C | 24% | 43.3 |
| Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy | C+ | 26% | 43.3 |
| The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College | C+ | 33% | 42.7 |
| Aylesford School Warwick | C | 26% | 42.4 |
| The Polesworth School | C | 20% | 42 |
| The Coleshill School | C | 23% | 42 |
| Campion School | C | 34% | 41.8 |
| Harris Church of England Academy | C | 37% | 41.8 |
| Nuneaton Academy | C | 47% | 41.8 |
| Hartshill Academy | C− | 41% | 40.6 |
| St Benedict's Catholic High School | C− | 32% | 40.5 |
| Bilton School | C− | 31% | 39.3 |
| Nicholas Chamberlaine School | D | 35% | 37.1 |
| Trinity Catholic School | D | 40% | 37.1 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 20251,114 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
The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College’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.
Graded inspection: Good, March 2023.
Living near The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in CV21 1, the school’s postcode sector
Rugby property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in CV21 1 sell for a little under Rugby’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
15 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗near Rugby, CV21 1EH
The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College: common questions
Is The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College a good school?
By its published results, below average: its GCSE results are better than 36% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is C+), with an Attainment 8 of 42.7 and 41% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, March 2023.
How hard is it to get into The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College?
For September 2026, 199 families put The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College first and 167 of them were offered a place; 208 places were offered in all.
What is The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).
How much do houses cost near The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College?
Homes in its postcode sector, CV21 1, sold for a median £256,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (497 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; Rugby’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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