Holmer Green Senior School, High Wycombe

Ofsted's report card from its 17 March 2026 inspection grades Holmer Green Senior School on 7 areas: 2 strong standard and 5 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. "Pupils, particularly those who are disadvantaged, are very well supported in their personal development."

Post 16 provision - Strong standard. "Leaders have established a broad curriculum offer in the sixth form."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils typically achieve well in national examinations."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils understand the importance of regular attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have put in place a well-sequenced and ambitious curriculum."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders identify pupils' additional needs quickly and accurately."

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

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teaching is of a consistently high quality across the school. In particular, leaders should ensure that checks on understanding are used meaningfully to help pupils build knowledge more securely from their starting points"; "Leaders should ensure that the plans they have in place to meet the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are consistently understood and implemented by staff across the school"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils in key stage 3 have sufficient opportunities to develop the accuracy and fluency of their writing".

In 2026, pupils at Holmer Green Senior School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.6, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 55 in Buckinghamshire and 47 across England.

56% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 61% in Buckinghamshire and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 47.1.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.4: 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 38.1, against 49 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 10.9 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 25 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Biology and Physics.

For September 2026 entry, 186 families put Holmer Green Senior School as their first choice and 671 named it as one of their preferences, for 209 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 23 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Holmer Green Senior School are Sir William Ramsay School (1.4 miles, Attainment 8 35.1); The Misbourne School (2.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 51.9); The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe (2.4 miles, Good, selective, Attainment 8 71.9); and The Highcrest Academy (2.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42).

Holmer Green Senior School's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

270 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Holmer Green Senior School (as of April 2026): 76% would recommend the school, 71% say their child is happy there and 60% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (76%); the weakest, that they are kept well informed about progress (59%).

Of the 207 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 92% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 30% to a further education college, 4% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

Of the 76 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 49% went on to university or other higher education, 15% to apprenticeships and 21% into work. 25% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

10% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 7.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (68%), Asian (14%) and Mixed (8%).

Holmer Green Senior School has a resourced provision for speech, language and communication needs: 23 places, 26 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Great Missenden Rail Station, about 2.7 miles away in a straight line.

5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Browns Road (ne-bound), 200 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Holmer Green Senior School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 24 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other theft. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Buckinghamshire (44).

In 2024/25, Holmer Green Senior School issued 195 suspensions, 15.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Holmer Green Senior School are Holmer Green First School and Pre-School (0.2 miles), Holmer Green Junior School (0.4 miles), Cedar Park School & Nursery (1 mile) and Widmer End Community Combined School (1 mile). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.