Secondary
The Willink School
School Lane, Burghfield Common, Reading, RG7 3XJ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1205 of 995 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Sixth form
- Yes
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 71.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 105.2
- Pupils per adult
- 11.9
- Pupils
- 1,255
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected October 2023
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
57%
3 points above the Reading average (54% across 18 schools)
51.9
0.3 above the Reading average (51.6 across 18 schools)
6th of 18 by our score, among the secondary schools in Reading we can score - 23 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 51.9 |
| EBacc average point score | 5.02 |
| Entered the EBacc | 92% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 73% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 57% |
| A level average points per entry | 35.28 |
| A level students | 110 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 69% |
| 22/23 | 59% |
| 23/24 | 54% |
| 24/25 | 57% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 40.4 |
| 22/23 | 34.8 |
| 23/24 | 32.8 |
| 24/25 | 35.3 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.36 |
| 22/23 | +0.31 |
| 23/24 | +0.04 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 57.7 |
| 22/23 | 51.3 |
| 23/24 | 49.1 |
| 24/25 | 51.9 |
School Lane, Burghfield Common, Reading, RG7 3XJ
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
West Berkshire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- N Browning
- Address
- School Lane, Burghfield Common, Reading, RG7 3XJ
- Telephone
- 01189832030