Secondary
Challney High School for Girls
Addington Way, Luton, LU4 9FJ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Girls
- Pupils
- 1062 of 1064 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.8
- Local authority
- Luton
- Trust
- CHILTERN LEARNING TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.4
- All staff (FTE)
- 85.1
- Pupils per adult
- 12.2
- Pupils
- 1,042
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 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationOutstanding
SafeguardingMet
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
48%
6 points above the Luton average (42% across 14 schools)
50.1
4.7 above the Luton average (45.4 across 14 schools)
3rd of 14 by our score, among the secondary schools in Luton 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 | 50.1 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.17 |
| Entered the EBacc | 28% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 72% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 48% |
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 | 65% |
| 22/23 | 52% |
| 23/24 | 54% |
| 24/25 | 48% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.95 |
| 22/23 | +0.93 |
| 23/24 | +0.74 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 53.8 |
| 22/23 | 51.1 |
| 23/24 | 51.0 |
| 24/25 | 50.1 |
Addington Way, Luton, LU4 9FJ
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.
Luton 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
- Sheba George
- Address
- Addington Way, Luton, LU4 9FJ
- Telephone
- 01582571427