Secondary
Dr Challoner's Grammar School
Chesham Road, Amersham, HP6 5HA
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Boys
- Pupils
- 1384 of 1356 places
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Admissions
- Selective (grammar)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- DR CHALLONER'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Ofsted
Last inspected November 2024
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationOutstanding
- Sixth formOutstanding
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)Earlier inspections1
November 2019
Previous framework
Outstanding
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationOutstanding
- Sixth formOutstanding
GCSE results
96%
73.9
2nd of 3 by our score, among the secondary schools in Amersham we can score - 4 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 | 73.9 |
| EBacc average point score | 7.12 |
| Entered the EBacc | 87% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 98% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 96% |
| A level average points per entry | 47.41 |
| A level students | 220 |
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 | 99% |
| 22/23 | 99% |
| 23/24 | 100% |
| 24/25 | 96% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 51.0 |
| 22/23 | 47.1 |
| 23/24 | 46.9 |
| 24/25 | 47.4 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.75 |
| 22/23 | +1.19 |
| 23/24 | +1.18 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 77.9 |
| 22/23 | 77.5 |
| 23/24 | 77.5 |
| 24/25 | 73.9 |
Chesham Road, Amersham, HP6 5HA
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.
Buckinghamshire 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
- David Atkinson
- Address
- Chesham Road, Amersham, HP6 5HA
- Telephone
- 01494787500