St Crispin's School, Wokingham

Ofsted's report card from its 6 May 2026 inspection grades St Crispin's School on 7 areas: 3 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' work on attendance is highly effective and sustained."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders' passionate commitment to inclusion underpins the school's 'excellence for all' ethos."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Pupils' personal development and wellbeing is at the heart of St Crispin's school."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils achieve well across their subjects and typically produce high-quality work."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have established an ambitious and well-planned curriculum."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders and trustees share an ambitious vision, centred on belonging and inclusion."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "St Crispin's broad and ambitious sixth-form curriculum offers a wide range of A-level subjects alongside a small number of applied and vocational qualifications."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teaching is consistently effective across the curriculum by providing teacher strategies to narrow gaps in disadvantaged pupils' knowledge and skills and support pupils who are at an earlier stage of reading"; "Leaders should continue to build on their post-16 provision, ensuring that higher proportions of students achieve the top academic grades".

Coming up: an open evening on Thursday 5 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at St Crispin's School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 53.3, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 54.2 in Wokingham and 47 across England.

54% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 62% in Wokingham and 47% in England.

That is up from 51.7 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.52: pupils made well 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 33.5, against 55.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 22.2 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 24 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Business Studies and History.

For September 2026 entry, 214 families put St Crispin's School as their first choice and 790 named it as one of their preferences, for 222 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 St Crispin's School are The Holt School (0.9 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 65.2); The Emmbrook School (1.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 50.5); King's Academy Easthampstead Park (1.9 miles, Attainment 8 41.5); and King's Academy Binfield (2.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 48.2).

St Crispin's School's 2026 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

St Crispin's School is one of 11 schools run by The Circle Trust, an academy trust.

Of the 212 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 95% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 24% to a further education college, 1% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

Of the 138 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 67% went on to university or other higher education, 5% to apprenticeships and 17% into work. 21% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

12.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 27.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (60%), Asian (10%) and Mixed (10%).

In 2026, 67 pupils (4.3%) received SEN support and 59 (3.8%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest railway station is Wokingham Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Seaford Road (opposite), 220 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 146 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Wokingham (70), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, St Crispin's School issued 53 suspensions, 3.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to St Crispin's School are Westende Junior School (under 0.1 miles), Wescott Infant School (0.2 miles), St Teresa's Catholic Academy (0.3 miles) and All Saints Church of England Primary School (0.4 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.