Wycombe High School, High Wycombe

In 2026, pupils at Wycombe High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 74.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 55 in Buckinghamshire and 47 across England.

96% 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 73.9.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.9: 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 69.8, against 74.5 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 4.7 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 20 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Wycombe High School is a grammar school: places go to children who reach the required standard in its entrance test, and only then are the oversubscription criteria applied.

For September 2026 entry, 263 families put Wycombe High School as their first choice and 720 named it as one of their preferences, for 190 places offered. That is 1.4 first choices for every place. 106 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Wycombe High School admits pupils through an entrance test - in Buckinghamshire, the Secondary Transfer Test. Children have to be registered for it in advance, normally in the spring or summer of Year 5; the test itself is usually sat in September of Year 6, and results come out in October, before the 31 October deadline for naming secondary schools.

Passing the test makes a child eligible rather than guaranteeing a place: when more children pass than there are places, Wycombe High School ranks them by the criteria in its admissions policy, which can include test score and distance. Check Buckinghamshire's admissions pages and the school's own policy for this year's registration deadline - a child who is not registered in time cannot sit the test.

Buckinghamshire has 13 state grammar schools in all, so a child who passes may have several selective schools to choose between.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Wycombe High School are John Hampden Grammar School (0.2 miles, Outstanding, selective, Attainment 8 73.1); St Michael's Catholic School (0.3 miles, Attainment 8 48.7); Cressex Community School (1 mile, Good, Attainment 8 44.3); and The Highcrest Academy (1.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42).

Wycombe High School's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Wycombe High School is run by its own single-school academy trust.

Of the 180 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 99% stayed in education or training for at least two terms.

Of the 184 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 76% went on to university or other higher education, 5% to apprenticeships and 12% into work. 57% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

9.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 18 pupils (1.3%) received SEN support and 3 (0.2%) 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 High Wycombe Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Marlow Hill Schools, 70 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 319 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 Buckinghamshire (44), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Wycombe High School issued 9 suspensions, 0.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Wycombe High School are High Wycombe Church of England Combined School (0.6 miles), Chepping View Primary Academy (0.6 miles), Abbey View Primary Academy (0.7 miles) and Oakridge School (0.8 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.