Chertsey High School, Addlestone

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades Chertsey High School on 6 areas: 2 strong standard and 4 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders have developed precise systems to monitor the attendance of pupils."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have designed a comprehensive personal development programme."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Over time, pupils generally achieve in line with national averages."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a well-sequenced, ambitious curriculum."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders use a range of effective strategies to identify the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders know the school well."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that the provision for pupils who are disadvantaged is highly effective, enabling them to achieve as well as they should"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers make highly effective adaptations based on their assessment to enable gaps in understanding to be closed quickly".

From the headteacher's welcome: "I am extraordinarily proud to be the Headteacher of this truly inclusive and diverse school. It is a school where we put the child at the heart of everything we do."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, netball, rugby, tennis, basketball, badminton, drama, choir, guitar and chess.

Coming up: an open day on Friday 18 December 2026, an open day on Saturday 19 December 2026, an open day on Monday 21 December 2026 and an open day on Wednesday 23 December 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at Chertsey High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 44.7, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 50.8 in Surrey and 47 across England.

45% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 54% in Surrey and 47% in England.

That is down from 46.2 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.03: pupils made about average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 35.2, against 47.2 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 12 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 27 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were History, Combined Science and Business Studies.

For September 2026 entry, 133 families put Chertsey High School as their first choice and 567 named it as one of their preferences, for 177 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 1 family who put it first was not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Chertsey High School are Jubilee High School (1 mile, Good, Attainment 8 42.5); Salesian School, Chertsey (1.1 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 61.2); Heathside School (1.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 57.1); and Thamesmead School (2.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 52.7).

Chertsey High School's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

Chertsey High School is one of 31 schools run by Bourne Education Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 46.4 in 2024/25.

Of the 164 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 88% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 40% to a further education college, 1% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

The nearest railway station is Chertsey Rail Station, about 1170 metres away (roughly a 15-minute walk).

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Clay Corner (s-bound), 50 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 198 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Surrey (76), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Chertsey High School issued 93 suspensions, 10.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Chertsey High School are Stepgates Community School (0.4 miles), St Anne's Catholic Primary School (0.4 miles), Meadowcroft Community Primary School (0.9 miles) and Darley Dene Primary School (1 mile). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.