Christ's College, Guildford, Guildford

Ofsted's report card from its 15 September 2026 inspection grades Christ's College, Guildford on 6 areas: 5 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Leaders' commitment to inclusion means that all pupils are supported well to achieve."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The school provides a broad and ambitious curriculum for all pupils."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Inclusion is at the heart of Christ's College's ethos."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders align decisions with the school's vision 'leading with love, learning with purpose'."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders promote pupils' personal development through the school's inclusive culture."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Some pupils do not attend school frequently enough."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that rates of absence and persistent absence, particularly for disadvantaged pupils, reduce further so that pupils maximise their opportunities for learning and benefit from the school's wider opportunities"; "Leaders should ensure that improvements to teaching, including the checks made on what pupils know and remember, are embedded across all subjects"; "Leaders should ensure that the personal development curriculum is consistently impactful, leading to pupils being able to apply a broad and secure knowledge of aspects across personal, social, health and economic education to their daily lives".

From the headteacher's welcome: "A very warm welcome to Christ’s College, our happy and thriving school community, a place where young people are nurtured to achieve great things. Take a look at our film here: We believe a great values driven education has the power to transform futures."

In 2026, pupils at Christ's College, Guildford averaged an Attainment 8 score of 41.7, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 50.8 in Surrey and 47 across England.

40% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 54% in Surrey and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 42.5.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.01: 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 30, against 45 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 15 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 23 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Spanish.

For September 2026 entry, 81 families put Christ's College, Guildford as their first choice and 283 named it as one of their preferences, for 165 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Christ's College, Guildford are Kings College Guildford (1.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 46.8); George Abbot School (1.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 60.4); Guildford County School (1.5 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 59.2); and St Peter's Catholic School (2 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 62.5).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than Christ's College, Guildford.

Christ's College, Guildford is one of 24 schools run by The Good Shepherd Trust, an academy trust.

Of the 144 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 88% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 29% to a further education college, 4% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

The nearest railway station is London Road (Guildford) Rail Station, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line.

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Christ's College (adjacent), 200 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Christ's College, Guildford stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 195 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, Christ's College, Guildford issued 445 suspensions, 66.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 4 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Christ's College, Guildford are Northmead Junior School (0.2 miles), Stoughton Infant School (0.3 miles), Weyfield Primary Academy (0.4 miles) and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (0.9 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.