Guildford County School

Comprehensive

National rank

300

317

Rank last year

58.9%

A-level

A-level

A*-B

33.9%

GCSE

GCSE

9/8/7

Need to know

Head teacher Steve Smith
Attendance 93.1%
Gender of entry Mixed
Send pupils* 18.2% *Special educational needs and disabilities
Total pupils 1,190
Pupils on free school meals 8.9%
Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE
Our methodology
Results

A-level 2025 rank: 302

Grade

%

A*

14.1

A

23.2

B

21.7

A*/A

37.3

A*-B

58.9

GCSE 2025 rank: 287

Grade

%

9/8

20.4

7

13.6

9/8/7

33.9

What the school inspection says

“Pupils are ambitious to learn and they achieve exceptionally well. The school has a creative and purposeful environment. Here, pupils feel safe. [They] experience a rich and varied learning experience both in and out of lessons. This is a community where, as staff and pupils proudly state, ‘better never stops’ ... Pupils are attentive and actively involved in making choices about their learning ... Parents are hugely appreciative of what the leaders and all the staff do to enable their children to flourish … [One] said, ‘This is such a great community school. It has high expectations of the students in all areas of school life, providing a really stretching, yet balanced, life education.’”
Inspection
2023
*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.
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