The Brakenhale School, Bracknell

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From the headteacher's welcome: "Welcome to Brakenhale School. I am both proud and privileged to be leading our school which serves our local community. We know that education is a vehicle for change. Education opens doors and we will do our absolute best, every single day, to ensure our students get the very best."

On phones, the school says: "Music Players Music Players such as MP3, MP4 players, iPods, game machines or any music device with attached earphones are not allowed to be played within the school building."

In 2026, pupils at The Brakenhale School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 48.1 in Bracknell Forest and 47 across England.

51% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 49% in Bracknell Forest and 47% in England.

That is up from 44.2 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.29: pupils made below 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 36.1, against 51.5 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 15.4 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 20 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Business Studies and Art and Design.

For September 2026 entry, 118 families put The Brakenhale School as their first choice and 273 named it as one of their preferences, for 172 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 The Brakenhale School are Ranelagh School (0.3 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 56.7); Garth Hill College (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42.2); King's Academy Easthampstead Park (1.5 miles, Attainment 8 41.5); and King's Academy Binfield (1.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 48.2).

The Brakenhale School's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

The Brakenhale School is one of 39 schools run by Greenshaw Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 48 in 2024/25.

Of the 208 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 83% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 49% to a further education college, 4% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

Of the 43 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 42% went on to university or other higher education, 12% to apprenticeships and 23% into work. 3% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

The nearest railway station is Bracknell Rail Station, about 640 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Brakenhale School (w-bound), 50 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 339 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 Bracknell Forest (84), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, The Brakenhale School issued 830 suspensions, 74.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to The Brakenhale School are Fox Hill Primary School (0.3 miles); Wildridings Primary School (0.4 miles); St Michael's Easthampstead Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School (0.6 miles); and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Bracknell (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.