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Aureus School

URN
140653
Phase
Secondary
Status
Open

School overview

School name
Aureus School
URN
140653
Phase
Secondary
Gender
Mixed
Age range
11-16
Status
Open

School Compass Score

Limited Data

44 / 100

Limited Data

Based on official data for academic year 2024/25.

Academic Outcomes

33

Inspection

—

Admissions Value

32

Destinations

52

Stability & Context

100

School Compass rankings

School rankings are not currently available.

School Compass recommendation

Insufficient Data

Not enough information is available to generate a recommendation.

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Based on School Compass analysis of official performance, inspection, admissions and destination data.

Admissions strategy

  • Application category: Not recommended
  • Admissions pressure: Very high competition
  • Admissions risk: Very high risk

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Crime & Safety

  • Safety score: Safe
  • National comparison: Lower crime than average
  • Crime trend: Stable trend
  • Confidence: High confidence

Higher share of violent and serious offences than typical

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Available in the full Parent Report:

  • Crime categories in the surrounding area
  • Local authority and nearby-school comparisons
  • Safety trends over the past year
  • Area context and confidence notes

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Area crime data reflects the surrounding neighbourhood — it is not a measure of school safeguarding or on-site safety.

  • Area crime data reflects the surrounding neighbourhood — it is not a measure of school safeguarding or on-site safety.
  • This section reflects police-recorded crime in the surrounding area, not incidents on school premises.
  • Figures are anonymised by the police and aggregated within approximately one mile of the school site.

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Ofsted inspections

Previous inspection framework
Latest publication date
27 November 2024
Inspection date
22 October 2024
Inspection type
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1
Category of concern
None recorded
SafeguardingNot available

Inspection outcomes

  • Quality of education

    Good

    Graded 27 November 2024

  • Behaviour and attitudes

    Good

    Graded 27 November 2024

  • Personal development

Admissions

Very High pressure

Official Department for Education applications and offers data for Secondary Transfer in academic year 2025/26.

Academic year

Academic year

2025/26

Published admission number (PAN)

Published admission number (PAN)

104

Places offered by the school

Applications received

Applications received

336

Times listed as any preference

Offers made

Offers made

84

Preferred offers from this school

Oversubscription ratio

Oversubscription ratio

3.23×

Applications per place

Offer rate

Where to apply

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Local authority
Oxfordshire
Admissions portal
GOV.UK — apply for a secondary school place (Oxfordshire)
Application deadline
31 October 2026 (on-time deadline for secondary entry, September 2027)
School website
www.aureusschool.org

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Performance & outcomes

Official Department for Education attainment and outcomes data. Suppressed or unpublished figures are shown as “Not published”.

Key stage 4 (secondary)

Key stage 4 (secondary) data for academic year 2024/25

Official Department for Education key stage 4 performance for academic year 2024/25. Progress 8 is not published for this academic year.

Attainment 8

Attainment 8

33.7

Progress 8

Progress 8

Not published

English and maths grade 5 or above

English & maths 5+

19.4%

English and maths grade 4 or above

English & maths 4+

44.9%

EBacc entry

EBacc entry

9.2%

EBacc achievement

Location

OX11 6FF - Candytuft Way, Great Western Park, Didcot, Oxfordshire

Contact details

Address
Candytuft Way, Great Western Park, Didcot, Oxfordshire
Postcode
OX11 6FF
Phone
1235313713
Website
www.aureusschool.org
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Administrative details

Local authority name
Oxfordshire
Local authority code
931

School insights

Local authority context

This school is one of 675 schools in Oxfordshire.

Authority statistics

Total schools

675

Open schools

370

Closed schools

304

Primary schools

402

Data quality

Last updated
14 June 2026
Last imported
14 June 2026

Dates reflect the latest GIAS import and any recorded closure date for this school.

The School Compass Score combines academic outcomes, inspection findings, admissions value, destinations, and school stability to help parents compare schools consistently.

  • Not all crime is reported to the police. Small areas can vary significantly year to year.
  • Source: data.police.uk under the Open Government Licence; population from ONS.
  • Good

    Graded 27 November 2024

  • Leadership and management

    Good

    Graded 27 November 2024

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    Inspection history

    Showing the last 1 inspection on record, including monitoring visits.

    PublishedInspectedTypeSummaryReport
    27 November 202422 October 2024Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1InspectionView report for inspection published 27 November 2024
    • Inspection

      Published
      27 November 2024
      Inspected
      22 October 2024
      Type
      Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1
      Report
      View report

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted management information via GOV.UK.

    Offer rate

    25.0%

    Offers as a share of applications

    First preference offers: 53

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education school applications and offers statistics.

    EBacc achievement

    5.1%

    Key stage 4 destinations

    Key stage 4 destinations data for leaver academic year 2022/23

    Sustained destination measures for pupils who completed key stage 4 in 2022/23 (destinations in 2023/24).

    Education destination

    Education %

    82.0%

    Employment destination

    Employment %

    5.0%

    Apprenticeship destination

    Apprenticeships %

    3.0%

    Not in education, employment or training

    NEET %

    6.0%

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education performance and outcomes statistics (England).

    Secondary schools

    79

    Special schools

    0

    Phase distribution

    • Primary402 (61.5%)
    • Secondary79 (12.1%)
    • Special0 (0.0%)
    • Other173 (26.5%)

    Nearby schools

    School nameDistancePhaseStatus
    UTC Oxfordshire167 mSecondaryOpen
    Didcot Primary Academy213 mPrimaryOpen
    Aureus Primary School659 mPrimaryOpen
    Stephen Freeman Primary School904 mPrimaryOpen
    Stephen Freeman Community Primary School904 mPrimaryClosed
    Didcot Girls' School1.3 kmSecondaryClosed
    Didcot Girls' School1.3 kmSecondaryOpen
    Manor School1.4 kmPrimaryClosed
    Manor School1.4 kmPrimaryClosed
    Manor Primary School1.4 kmPrimaryOpen
    • UTC Oxfordshire
      Distance
      167 m
      Phase
      Secondary
      Status
      Open
    • Didcot Primary Academy
      Distance
      213 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Open
    • Aureus Primary School
      Distance
      659 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Open
    • Stephen Freeman Primary School
      Distance
      904 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Open

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    Distance
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    Phase
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    Status
    Closed
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    Distance
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  • Manor School
    Distance
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    Distance
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    Phase
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