Secondary
The Boswells School
Burnham Road, Chelmsford, CM1 6LY
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1423 of 1431 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
- Local authority
- Essex
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- THE CHELMSFORD LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 82.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 107.0
- Pupils per adult
- 13.5
- Pupils
- 1,440
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 February 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
46%
12 points below the Chelmsford average (58% across 10 schools)
48.4
6.0 below the Chelmsford average (54.4 across 10 schools)
6th of 10 by our score, among the secondary schools in Chelmsford we can score - see them all. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 48.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.34 |
| Entered the EBacc | 38% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 70% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 46% |
| A level average points per entry | 38.05 |
| A level students | 90 |
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 | 60% |
| 22/23 | 46% |
| 23/24 | 48% |
| 24/25 | 46% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 41.2 |
| 22/23 | 36.3 |
| 23/24 | 37.6 |
| 24/25 | 38.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.07 |
| 22/23 | +0.29 |
| 23/24 | -0.16 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 53.7 |
| 22/23 | 48.7 |
| 23/24 | 46.4 |
| 24/25 | 48.4 |
Burnham Road, Chelmsford, CM1 6LY
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.
Essex 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
- Stephen Mansell
- Address
- Burnham Road, Chelmsford, CM1 6LY
- Telephone
- 01245264451