Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls, Gloucester
Data last updated 12 Sept 2026
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 4 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Al-Ashraf creates a warm, family-like environment where pupils feel welcomed and valued as individuals. The school combines strong academic teaching with an impressive range of enrichment activities, helping girls develop confidence and prepare well for life beyond school. Behaviour is excellent, attendance is consistently high, and the school has successfully built trusting relationships with families from diverse backgrounds.
Key Strengths
- Excellent attendance and behaviour with a culture of working hard, being kind and behaving well
- High-quality personal development programme including careers guidance, enrichment activities and carefully tailored relationships education
- Strong safeguarding culture where pupils feel safe and supported
- Well-planned, ambitious curriculum with good support for pupils with special educational needs
- Positive relationships between staff, pupils and families with low bullying incidents
Areas for Improvement
- Inconsistency in how teachers check pupils' understanding during lessons and use this to plan next steps
- Some gaps in foundation skills (communication, language, reading, spelling and maths) that persist for certain pupils
- Professional learning programme could be more extensive and targeted
- Oversight of school performance by leadership, proprietor and governors is not always consistent
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, concerns are actively identified and managed, and pupils are made safer and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Annual enrichment week, house system competitions (sport, baking, poetry), reward trips, assemblies led by pupils, visits from renowned artists, work with local primary schools, swimming lessons with Royal Life Saving Society, work experience placements
Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls is a well-established independent school in Gloucester where pupils enjoy their time, attend regularly, and achieve well in national examinations. The school creates a calm, purposeful environment with strong pastoral support and an extensive personal development programme.
At a Glance
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Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Class Sizes
0.0
Avg class size
0
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
87%
Available places
76 pupils
87 capacity
11 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Gloucester
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Gloucester
Admissions Demand - Gloucestershire
Places available
7,972
Applications
6,678
Got 1st preference
84.6%
Got preferred school
96.6%
Secondary admissions across Gloucestershire (2025/26)
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Al-Ashraf Secondary School for Girls
Widden Primary School
Al Ashraf Primary School
St James' Church of England Junior School
St Peter's Catholic Primary School
Tredworth Infant and Nursery Academy
Hatherley Infant School
Tredworth Junior School
St Paul's Church of England Primary School
Kingsholm Church of England Primary School
Linden Primary School
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