Secondary
Woodbrook Vale School
Grasmere Road, Loughborough, LE11 2ST
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 839 of 830 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.7
- Local authority
- Leicestershire
- Trust
- WOODBROOK VALE SCHOOL
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 45.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 67.8
- Pupils per adult
- 12.4
- Pupils
- 840
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 March 2026
- AchievementExpected standard
- Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
- Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
- InclusionExpected standard
- Leadership and governanceExpected standard
- Personal development and wellbeingExpected standard
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
February 2022
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
GCSE results
53%
3 points above the Loughborough average (50% across 8 schools)
51.2
2.9 above the Loughborough average (48.3 across 8 schools)
8th of 8 by our score, among the secondary schools in Loughborough we can score - 9 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 | 51.2 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.86 |
| Entered the EBacc | 73% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 71% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 53% |
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 | 66% |
| 22/23 | 60% |
| 23/24 | 59% |
| 24/25 | 53% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.45 |
| 22/23 | +0.43 |
| 23/24 | +0.44 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 56.0 |
| 22/23 | 54.1 |
| 23/24 | 52.4 |
| 24/25 | 51.2 |
Grasmere Road, Loughborough, LE11 2ST
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.
Leicestershire 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
- Rachael Fraser
- Address
- Grasmere Road, Loughborough, LE11 2ST
- Telephone
- 01509557560