The School Record

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

Royal Alexandra and Albert School

URN 125279 · All Through · Voluntary aided school · Surrey

Gatton Park, Reigate, RH2 0TD

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 3, 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, 70 families named Royal Alexandra and Albert School as their first preference, and the school made 77 offers.

That is 0.91 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 39% of schools admitting at Year 3 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 39% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 3, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.8 in 2021–2022 and 1.09 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 3, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 70 275 77 0.91
2024 90 313 71 1.27
2023 111 388 73 1.52
2022 110 449 72 1.53
2021 141 457 68 2.07
2020 136 451 74 1.84
2019 153 450 89 1.72
2018 102 360 96 1.06
2017 85 296 90 0.94
2016 87 307 83 1.05
2015 93 322 81 1.15
2014 82 274 71 1.15

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 12 March 2024

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 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 53.20 - 77.8% 36.1%
2023/24 55.00 0.61
likely between 0.35 and 0.87
83.9% 38.1%
2022/23 51.70 0.06
likely between -0.20 and 0.32
78.1% 32.9%

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.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 46.0% 0.0% 104.0 104.0
2023/24 19.0% 0.0% 107.0 104.0
2022/23 67.0% 5.0% 104.0 103.0

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 65.4 55.3 0.5 9.7 15.6%
2023/24 73.6 51.9 6.0 15.7 29.5%
2022/23 77.8 57.3 6.6 14.0 26.5%
2021/22 74.5 58.3 7.2 9.0 21.7%
2020/21 76.9 55.1 6.0 15.9 28.5%
2019/20 73.7 65.9 1.7 6.0 10.4%

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

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest all through schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Royal Alexandra and Albert 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.