Furze Platt Senior School, Maidenhead

Ofsted's report card from its 10 March 2026 inspection grades Furze Platt Senior School on 7 areas: 1 strong standard and 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "The school ensures that pupils benefit from a wide and rich set of experiences to enhance their learning and enrich their lives."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils achieve well across the school."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Most pupils attend school regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The curriculum is ambitious and well sequenced."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders understand pupils' needs."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders at all levels understand the school's strengths."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "Leaders have given careful consideration to the sixth form offer."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that they regularly and precisely review the impact of their work around attendance, so that persistent absence rates for all pupil groups are further reduced"; "Leaders should ensure that teaching consistently and accurately takes account of pupils' starting points and needs, so that all pupils can be successful in their learning"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils have appropriate opportunities to develop accuracy and fluency in their handwriting".

In its own words: "Furze Platt Senior School is a highly aspirational , high achieving and fully inclusive school providing an outstanding education that enables all our students to achieve excellent outcomes . Our school is a successful mixed comprehensive school serving the children of Maidenhead."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include drama, gardening and debating.

In 2026, pupils at Furze Platt Senior School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.6, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 48.4 in Windsor and Maidenhead and 47 across England.

43% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 48% in Windsor and Maidenhead and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 47.5.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.36: pupils made above 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 30.5, against 50.8 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 20.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 29 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Geography, Physics and Biology.

For September 2026 entry, 199 families put Furze Platt Senior School as their first choice and 1019 named it as one of their preferences, for 250 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 7 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Furze Platt Senior School are Newlands Girls' School (1.2 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 58.9); Altwood Church of England School (1.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 40); Desborough College (1.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 44.6); and Cox Green School (2 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 44.8).

Furze Platt Senior School's 2026 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

208 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Furze Platt Senior School (as of April 2026): 87% would recommend the school, 81% say their child is happy there and 68% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (87%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (68%).

Of the 218 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 93% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 32% to a further education college, 1% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

Of the 153 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 60% went on to university or other higher education, 3% to apprenticeships and 22% into work. 21% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (56%), Asian (18%) and Mixed (10%).

Furze Platt Senior School has a resourced provision for autism: 25 places, 24 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Furze Platt Rail Station, about 910 metres away (roughly a 11-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Peter's Road, 170 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Furze Platt Senior School stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Furze Platt Senior School issued 403 suspensions, 26.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 5 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Furze Platt Senior School are Furze Platt Infant School (0.2 miles), Furze Platt Junior School (0.2 miles), Alwyn Infant School (0.5 miles) and Courthouse Junior School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.