The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Cressex Community School

URN 110500 · Secondary · Foundation school · Buckinghamshire

Holmers Lane, High Wycombe, HP12 4QA

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 178 families named Cressex Community School as their first preference, and the school made 144 offers.

That is 1.24 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 83% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 83% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.0 in 2021–2022 and 1.15 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 178 466 144 1.24
2024 155 455 145 1.07
2023 186 437 140 1.33
2022 153 416 137 1.12
2021 128 449 144 0.89
2020 148 458 141 1.05
2019 162 428 140 1.16
2018 125 354 149 0.84
2017 99 283 137 0.72
2016 101 276 142 0.71
2015 92 255 152 0.61
2014 79 202 150 0.53

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 28 February 2024

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 50.70 - 69.4% 4.1%
2023/24 45.20 0.48
likely between 0.24 and 0.71		 64.4% 2.1%
2022/23 48.00 0.40
likely between 0.17 and 0.64		 67.6% 6.1%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 42.0 35.0 3.0 4.0 16.7%
2023/24 43.1 39.6 0.7 2.8 8.1%
2022/23 43.4 35.9 1.7 5.7 17.1%
2021/22 46.6 34.5 3.9 8.2 26.0%
2020/21 43.9 34.7 2.0 7.1 20.7%
2019/20 44.4 35.4 2.0 7.0 20.3%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Buckinghamshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Cressex Community School), in force from 2027.

Covers: 1,887 live postcodes across 62.525 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Great Marlow School, Holmer Green Senior School, Princes Risborough School and Sir William Ramsay School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

31 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Cressex Community School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Cressex Community School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.