Secondary
Desborough College
Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, SL6 2QB
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Boys
- Pupils
- 539 of 1140 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
- Local authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- PIONEER EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 39.4
- All staff (FTE)
- 50.5
- Pupils per adult
- 14.4
- Pupils
- 728
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 May 2024
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
54%
5 points above the Maidenhead average (49% across 5 schools)
45.7
1.2 below the Maidenhead average (46.9 across 5 schools)
2nd of 5 by our score, among the secondary schools in Maidenhead 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 | 45.7 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.06 |
| Entered the EBacc | 40% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 69% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 54% |
| A level average points per entry | 32.21 |
| A level students | 27 |
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 | 62% |
| 22/23 | 54% |
| 23/24 | 52% |
| 24/25 | 54% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 30.6 |
| 22/23 | 19.2 |
| 23/24 | 25.4 |
| 24/25 | 32.2 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.11 |
| 22/23 | +0.06 |
| 23/24 | -0.17 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 52.3 |
| 22/23 | 49.0 |
| 23/24 | 44.9 |
| 24/25 | 45.7 |
Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, SL6 2QB
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.
Windsor and Maidenhead 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
- Principal
- Parimal Bhatt
- Address
- Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, SL6 2QB
- Telephone
- 01628634505