Oakbank School
- Secondary
- Free schools
- Ages 11 to 16
URN 152100 · Wokingham · GREENSHAW LEARNING TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest full inspection
13 November 2024Ofsted category: Special measures.
- Quality of education
- Inadequate
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Inadequate
- Personal development
- Inadequate
- Leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Safeguarding is effective
- No
This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.
Unannounced visit (no formal designation)
From September 2024 until report cards began, full inspections gave key judgements but no overall grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Key stage 4 results
Against Wokingham and England, secondary schools.
Attainment 8
2025/26 (provisional)40.7
- Wokingham
- 55.5
- England
- 47.4
6.7 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Wokingham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 55.5 | 49.8 |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 53.4 | 47.2 |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 53.5 | 46.9 |
| 2024/25 | Not published | 54.0 | 47.1 |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 40.7 | 55.5 | 47.4 |
The average of pupils' points across eight GCSE-level qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
English and maths: grade 4 or above
2025/26 (provisional)59%
- Wokingham
- 79%
- England
- 66%
7 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Wokingham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 80% | 70% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 79% | 67% |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 78% | 67% |
| 2024/25 | Not published | 78% | 66% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 59% | 79% | 66% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 4 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
English and maths: grade 5 or above
2025/26 (provisional)39%
- Wokingham
- 64%
- England
- 48%
9 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Wokingham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 63% | 51% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 61% | 46% |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 61% | 47% |
| 2024/25 | Not published | 62% | 47% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 39% | 64% | 48% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
Teachers
Against Wokingham and England, secondary schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/2614.7
- Wokingham
- 18.1
- England
- 17.3
2.6 lower than England.
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/25Not publishedNot published for this school
- Wokingham
- 4.3 days
- England
- 5.0 days
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
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About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 300
- Capacity
- 560
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- GREENSHAW LEARNING TRUST
- Opened
- 1 September 2025
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 9 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: Hyde End Lane, Ryeish Green, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 1ER
Website: www.oakbankschool.co.uk
Telephone: 01189883616
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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