Theale Green School, Reading

Ofsted's report card from its 21 April 2026 inspection grades Theale Green School on 7 areas: 5 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have a clear and accurate understanding of how well the curriculum and teaching are working."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have a clear and accurate understanding of pupils' individual needs, including those who are disadvantaged."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders accurately understand what the school does well and what it needs to do to improve further."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils' personal development is evident across the school."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "Leaders have a clear and well-informed understanding of the quality and suitability of the 16 to 19 study programmes."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils' attainment at key stage 4 has been below national averages for the last 3 years, including for disadvantaged pupils."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Attendance remains a key priority for leaders."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teaching supports and challenges pupils' learning so that pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, achieve more highly"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils develop detailed and secure knowledge across the personal, social, health and economic education and citizenship curriculum"; "Leaders should continue their work to increase the attendance of pupils, particularly disadvantaged pupils, so that they benefit fully from the education the school provides".

In its own words: "It is a great privilege to be the Headteacher of our wonderful community at Theale Green School. Theale Green School has a rich legacy, steeped in history from its beginnings as a grammar school, that has evolved, with our house system at the heart of our identity."

In 2026, pupils at Theale Green School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 42.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 49.3 in West Berkshire and 47 across England.

35% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 50% in West Berkshire and 47% in England.

That is up from 38.5 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.31: 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 25.8, against 47.1 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 21.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 19 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Business Studies and History.

For September 2026 entry, 101 families put Theale Green School as their first choice and 255 named it as one of their preferences, for 124 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 Theale Green School are Little Heath School (1.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 48.8); Denefield School (2.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 49); The Willink School (2.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 55.8); and King's Academy Prospect (3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 39.7).

Theale Green School's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

Theale Green School is one of 6 schools run by Activate Learning Education Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 40.3 in 2024/25.

Of the 113 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 83% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 32% to a further education college, 5% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

Of the 52 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 52% went on to university or other higher education, 6% to apprenticeships and 25% into work. 15% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

6.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (77%) and Mixed (9%).

Theale Green School has a resourced provision for autism: 14 places, 13 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Theale Rail Station, about 850 metres away (roughly a 11-minute walk).

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Theale Green School (opposite), 170 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Theale Green School stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 7th decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 10 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, other theft and public order offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in West Berkshire (26).

In 2024/25, Theale Green School issued 291 suspensions, 36.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 7 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Theale Green School are Theale C.E. Primary School (0.2 miles), Englefield C.E. Primary School (0.8 miles), Calcot Junior School (1.6 miles) and Calcot Infant School and Nursery (1.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.