Secondary
The Commonweal School
The Mall, Old Town, Swindon, SN1 4JE
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1442 of 1400 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
- Local authority
- Swindon
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- PD - Physical Disability
- Trust
- THE COMMONWEAL SCHOOL
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 80.4
- All staff (FTE)
- 111.7
- Pupils per adult
- 12.5
- Pupils
- 1,398
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 June 2023
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
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
38%
6 points below the Swindon average (44% across 15 schools)
46.3
1.4 above the Swindon average (44.9 across 15 schools)
9th of 15 by our score, among the secondary schools in Swindon we can score - 18 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 | 46.3 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.12 |
| Entered the EBacc | 36% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 64% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 38% |
| A level average points per entry | 28.69 |
| A level students | 107 |
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 | 44% |
| 22/23 | 45% |
| 23/24 | 44% |
| 24/25 | 38% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 33.7 |
| 22/23 | 31.3 |
| 23/24 | 30.7 |
| 24/25 | 28.7 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.04 |
| 22/23 | -0.11 |
| 23/24 | -0.11 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 49.6 |
| 22/23 | 47.2 |
| 23/24 | 44.9 |
| 24/25 | 46.3 |
The Mall, Old Town, Swindon, SN1 4JE
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.
Swindon 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
- Charles Drew
- Address
- The Mall, Old Town, Swindon, SN1 4JE
- Telephone
- 01793612727