# The De Montfort School URN 148338, Secondary, Academy sponsor led, Worcestershire. Four Pools Road, Evesham, WR11 1DQ. This school became an academy on 1 January 2021. Before that it was a community school, under its earlier school number, URN 116932. This page states what happened. It publishes no score, no ranking and no prediction, and nothing here says whether a particular child would be offered a place. This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything. Figures current as of 14 September 2026. ## About the school - Type of school: Academy - Academy trust: Four Stones Gateway Trust - Became an academy: 1 January 2021. Before that it was a community school, under its earlier school number, URN 116932. - Ages: 10 to 18 - Boys or girls: Boys and girls - Sixth form: Yes - Website: https://www.tdms.worcs.sch.uk/ - Telephone: 01386 442060 - School number (URN): 148338 From Get Information about Schools. Schools update their own entries, so these can be out of date. Four Stones Gateway Trust runs 6 other schools with a page here. Nearest first: - King Charles I School, Kidderminster, 24.1 miles away: /school/138032/king-charles-i-school - Haybridge High School and Sixth Form, Stourbridge, 25.1 miles away: /school/136898/haybridge-high-school-and-sixth-form - Cleobury Mortimer Primary School, Kidderminster, 30.9 miles away: /school/141636/cleobury-mortimer-primary-school - The Lacon Childe School, Kidderminster, 30.9 miles away: /school/141451/the-lacon-childe-school - Stottesdon CofE Primary School, Kidderminster, 33.7 miles away: /school/142312/stottesdon-cofe-primary-school - Clee Hill Community Academy, Ludlow, 34.4 miles away: /school/141637/clee-hill-community-academy ## How big the school is In 2024 this school had 1,270 places and 900 children on roll. 370 places were unfilled, which is 29% of the school. In 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 the school had 890 children on roll on average, against 900 in 2024. Some of those years are from its record under an earlier school number. Its places have grown from 1,011 in 2009 to 1,270 in 2024. Places are the whole school added up, every year group together. That is not the number of places a school offers to new children in one year. Source: Department for Education school capacity collection. ## Children in each year group As counted on one day in January 2026, the most recent school census. These are children, not places. | Year group | Children | |---|---:| | Year 6 | 121 | | Year 7 | 122 | | Year 8 | 115 | | Year 9 | 148 | | Year 10 | 170 | | Year 11 | 158 | | Year 12 | 48 | | Year 13 | 33 | **This is not a list of spare places.** Places per year group are not published, and the count is from January. Children join and leave all year. To ask about a place during the school year, contact Worcestershire, which handles applications made in-year. They hold the up-to-date position and this page does not. ## Who decides who gets a place This school sets its own admission rules, through its academy trust, rather than Worcestershire setting them. Look on the school's own website for its admission arrangements. An admission authority has to agree its rules every year and publish them. The council still takes the application. Taken from the kind of school this is, as recorded by the Department for Education. The rules themselves are not reproduced here: a summary of an admission rule is not the rule, and only the admission authority's own published arrangements are binding. ## How to apply Children usually start at this school in Year 6. A place is not automatic: families apply to the council where they live. In Worcestershire, applications for a middle school place close on Friday 15 January 2027, and offers are sent on Friday 16 April 2027. This is the same timetable as primary schools. If you live in another council's area, apply through that council. Worcestershire: applying for a middle school place: https://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/council-services/schools-education-and-learning/apply-school-place/apply-middle-school-place To ask about visiting the school, or anything else about it, contact the school. https://www.tdms.worcs.sch.uk/, 01386 442060. Links and dates can change. Your council's own website has the final word. ## How many families applied Children usually start at this school in Year 6. The government publishes application figures only for the years when most children in England start a new school: Reception and Year 7, and Year 9 at some upper schools. So we have no figures for how many families applied for this school's main intake. The figures that are published are for the few children who joined in Year 7: in 2026, 4 families putting it first and 0 offers. They do not show how popular the school is, so we do not use them to compare it with other schools or with its own past. ## Catchment area Worcestershire publishes an admission area for this school. Living inside a published area is not an offer of a place. Councils use these areas in different ways: some to decide who gets a place when a school is full, some only to decide who gets free school transport. The shape is drawn to about 20 metres, so it cannot answer a question about a single house. ## If you are refused a place In 2026, families in Worcestershire lodged 204 appeals about a school place. 152 of them were heard by a panel and 42 succeeded, which is about 28 in every 100 heard. The other 52 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first. This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal. These count appeals about every school in Worcestershire, not this school. Nobody publishes appeal figures school by school. Source: Department for Education, admission appeals in England. ## Children with special educational needs In January 2026, 37 of the 915 children here had an education, health and care plan. That is 4 in every 100. That is close to the middle for schools in England, where the middle figure is 4 in every 100. A further 115 were on SEN support, which is help arranged by the school without a plan. That is 13 in every 100, against a middle figure of 15 in every 100 across England. A school named in a child's education, health and care plan has to admit that child. That duty holds even when the school is full, and it sits outside the rules that decide who gets a place when there are more children than places. Which school is named is decided with the council while the plan is being written, not through the normal application. Source: Department for Education, special educational needs in England, January 2026 census. ## Who goes to this school In January 2026, 239 of the 915 children here were known to be eligible for free school meals. That is 26 in every 100. That is close to the middle for secondary schools in England, which is 27 in every 100. English was not the first language for 22 in every 100 children here. Across secondary schools the middle figure is 12 in every 100. This describes the children who go to this school. It is not a measure of the school. Most children go to a school near home, so it is mostly a fact about the streets around it. This matters when reading results. Across the 3,610 schools we hold 2024 key stage 4 results for, the fifth with the fewest eligible children averaged 81% getting grade 4 or above in English and maths. The fifth with the most averaged 35%. Those are averages of many schools all over the country. This school's own results are further down this page exactly as published. Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026. Free school meal eligibility is counted for every pupil on roll. ## Results ### Key stage 2: what these numbers are made of Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Across the 3 years published, this measure ran from 49% in 2022 to 66% in 2023, a difference of 17 points. Year 6 had 121 children, so one child is worth about 0.8 percentage points and that difference is about 21 children. Half of schools in England move by 13 points or more across the same three years. ### Key stage 4: what these numbers are made of Getting grade 4 or above in English and maths. Across the 3 years published, this measure ran from 52.3% in 2024 to 61.9% in 2022, a difference of 9.6 points. The year group had 130 children, so one child is worth about 0.8 percentage points and that difference is about 12 children. Half of schools in England move by 6 points or more across the same three years. Withheld figures are shown as a dash, never as zero. Progress measures are estimates and are published by the government with a 95% confidence interval. Key stage 4, 2024: Attainment 8 38.40, Progress 8 not published. Key stage 4, 2023: Attainment 8 40.70, Progress 8 +0.15. Key stage 4, 2022: Attainment 8 42.30, Progress 8 +0.43. Key stage 2, 2024: 60.0% reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Key stage 2, 2023: 66.0% reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Key stage 2, 2022: 49.0% reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. ## Where these figures come from - Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase, address, contact details and how it is run. https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/. Retrieved 2 September 2026. - Worcestershire: applying for a middle school place. Page checked 29 September 2026. https://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/council-services/schools-education-and-learning/apply-school-place/apply-middle-school-place - Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/monthly-management-information-ofsteds-school-inspections-outcomes. Retrieved 14 September 2026. - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2021 to 2026 intakes. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/primary-and-secondary-school-applications-and-offers. Retrieved 14 September 2026. - Department for Education: school pupils and their characteristics. Children in each year group, January 2026 census. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics - Department for Education: school capacity. Places and pupils on roll, 2009 to 2024. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity - Department for Education: key stage 4 performance. Attainment 8, Progress 8 and EBacc, by school. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance. Retrieved 4 September 2026. - Department for Education: key stage 2 attainment. Reading, writing and maths outcomes, by school. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-2-attainment. Retrieved 4 September 2026. - Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england. Retrieved 4 September 2026. - Worcestershire: school admission zones. arcgis fetch 2026-09-05. https://gis.worcestershire.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/SchoolsSearch/MapServer/0/query?where=1=1&outFields=*&f=geojson. Retrieved 5 September 2026. "Retrieved" is the date of our copy of each source, not the year its figures describe. ## Using this information This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything. Full page: /school/148338/the-de-montfort-school Same figures as JSON: /school/148338.json