The School Record

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

Diss High School

URN 137092 · Secondary · Academy converter · Norfolk

Walcot Road, Diss, IP22 4DH

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

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, 126 families named Diss High School as their first preference, and the school made 133 offers.

That is 0.95 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 47% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 47% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.99 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 126 175 133 0.95
2024 139 168 142 0.98
2023 142 174 144 0.99
2022 200 247 206 0.97
2021 146 176 146 1.00
2020 136 162 146 0.93
2019 149 185 156 0.96
2018 164 201 171 0.96
2017 138 171 140 0.99
2016 153 194 158 0.97
2015 144 173 146 0.99
2014 154 190 160 0.96

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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, 14 March 2024

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 46.60 - 71.0% 26.9%
2023/24 44.30 -0.08
likely between -0.31 and 0.16		 67.1% 28.7%
2022/23 45.40 -0.06
likely between -0.28 and 0.17		 66.9% 24.8%

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 61.2 51.4 2.9 6.9 16.0%
2023/24 57.7 52.9 1.0 3.8 8.3%
2022/23 59.4 48.4 1.8 9.2 18.5%
2021/22 54.0 40.2 4.6 9.1 25.4%
2020/21 53.5 45.9 3.4 4.2 14.2%
2019/20 54.7 49.1 2.0 3.6 10.2%

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

Norfolk publishes an admission zone for this school (Diss High School).

Covers: 707 live postcodes across 139.268 km².

11 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 Diss High 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 Diss High 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.