Stoke Park School, Coventry

Ofsted's report card from its 6 May 2026 inspection grades Stoke Park School on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils generally achieve well in external examinations at the end of key stage 4."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Thanks to the school's methodical and strategic approach, pupils at all stages attend well."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders are effective in identifying if pupils lack the key knowledge that they need, for example in reading fluency, numeracy and writing."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "There are many pupils at the school who have barriers to their learning or wellbeing, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "There have been a number of changes in the school to support its journey of improvement."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a comprehensive programme for pupils' personal development."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "Leaders have taken rapid and effective action to improve standards in the sixth form."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teachers make appropriate adaptations to the curriculum consistently and systematically so that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and other pupils with significant needs can achieve well across the curriculum"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers check pupils' understanding consistently and effectively, identify pupils' misconceptions and gaps in pupils' knowledge and address those misconceptions and gaps in knowledge so that pupils build a coherent body of knowledge across the curriculum".

In its own words: "Stoke Park School was established in 1919 as a grammar school and although it has changed considerably in the last 100 years, our high expectations and academic curriculum remains the same. Through providing a quality education, alongside a range of exceptional experiences, our central aim is to enable all of our students to Build Brighter Futures."

In 2026, pupils at Stoke Park School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 44.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 44.5 in Coventry and 47 across England.

43% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 44% in Coventry and 47% in England.

That is up from 43.4 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.38: 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 34.2, against 50.8 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 16.6 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 188 families put Stoke Park School as their first choice and 494 named it as one of their preferences, for 210 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 12 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Stoke Park School are Lyng Hall School (0.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 34.4); Caludon Castle School (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.2); Sidney Stringer Academy (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42.3); and Blue Coat Church of England School and Music College (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 52.2).

Stoke Park School's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Stoke Park School is one of 10 schools run by The Futures Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 44 in 2024/25.

Of the 172 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 88% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 43% to a further education college, 1% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

Of the 65 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 65% went on to university or other higher education, 2% to apprenticeships and 14% into work. 19% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

36.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 45% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (37%), Asian (24%) and Black (10%).

In 2026, 254 pupils (23.1%) received SEN support and 27 (2.5%) 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.

Stoke Park School has a resourced provision for hearing impairment: 6 places, 3 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Coventry Rail Station, about 1.8 miles away in a straight line.

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Burns Road (adjacent), 240 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 466 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, vehicle crime and other theft. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Coventry (253), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Stoke Park School issued 269 suspensions, 24.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Stoke Park School are Stoke Primary School (0.2 miles), Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School (0.4 miles), Ravensdale Primary School (0.4 miles) and Frederick Bird Academy (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.