Carterton Community College
Upavon Way, Carterton, OX18 1BU
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Executive Headteacher
- Mr Matthew Maudsley
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Constituency
- Witney
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- Capacity
- 909
- Pupils on roll
- 774
- URN
- 123236
- Local authority
- Oxfordshire
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01993841611
About this school
Carterton Community College is a community secondary school in Carterton. It teaches children aged 11 to 18 and has 774 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. Each area of the school's work is graded on a five-point scale, and safeguarding is judged separately.
- Inclusion
- Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Leadership and governance
- Needs attention
- Post-16 provision
- Needs attention
- Safeguarding
- Met
Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern: requires significant improvement.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 107 | 104 | 111 |
| Attainment 8 score | 36.2 | 35.8 | 33.8 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.60 -0.90 to -0.30 | -0.61 -0.90 to -0.32 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 25% | 21.2% | 18.9% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 50% | 41.3% | 42.3% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 34% | 20.2% | 39.6% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Carterton Community College has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Oxfordshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 36.2 | 38.1 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 35.8 | 37.2 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 33.8 | 37.5 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 10.2% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 9.2% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 9.7% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 639 |
| 2023/24 | 685 |
| 2024/25 | 743 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Carterton Community College compares
Carterton Community College ranked 37th of 41 secondary schools in Oxfordshire for Attainment 8 in 2024/25. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 25% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 9% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 33.8 | 9.7% | 21.6% | 774 | — |
| Burford School | 52.4 | 7.8% | 13.9% | 1,452 | 3.2 miles |
| The Henry Box School | 42.2 | 11.7% | 20.7% | 1,027 | 5.0 miles |
| Wood Green School | 46.2 | 9.7% | 15.2% | 1,335 | 5.8 miles |
| Faringdon Community College | 43.7 | 12.3% | 18.6% | 1,382 | 8.1 miles |
| Farmor's School | 49.1 | 7.6% | 12.7% | 1,067 | 8.4 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
Inspection history
-
Graded inspection report14 April 2026
- 2 March 2022
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 21.62%
- English as an additional language
- 7%
- Overall absence
- 9.67%
- Persistent absence
- 22.55%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Burford School3.2 miles
Secondary · Burford
-
The Henry Box School5.0 miles
Secondary · Witney
-
Wood Green School5.8 miles
Secondary · Witney
-
Faringdon Community College8.1 miles
Secondary · Faringdon
-
Farmor's School8.4 miles
Secondary · Fairford
Other schools in Carterton
- Brize Norton Primary School Primary
- Carterton Primary School Primary
- Edith Moorhouse Primary School Primary
- Gateway Primary School Primary
- St John the Evangelist CofE VA Primary School Primary
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Carterton Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Carterton Community College teach?
- Carterton Community College teaches children aged 11 to 18. It is a secondary school in Carterton.
- Who is the executive headteacher of Carterton Community College?
- The executive headteacher of Carterton Community College is Mr Matthew Maudsley, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Carterton Community College last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Carterton Community College, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Carterton Community College?
- Carterton Community College has 774 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 18.
- Is Carterton Community College full?
- Carterton Community College has capacity for 909 pupils and 774 on roll (85%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Carterton Community College a faith school?
- No. Carterton Community College has no designated religious character.
- Is Carterton Community College a selective school?
- No. Carterton Community College is recorded as non-selective in the schools register.
- How have Carterton Community College's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 36.2 in 2022/23 and 33.8 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Carterton Community College rank locally?
- Carterton Community College ranked 37th of 41 secondary schools in Oxfordshire for Attainment 8. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 25% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 9% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Carterton Community College's absence rate?
- Carterton Community College's overall absence rate is 9.7% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Carterton Community College's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Carterton Community College's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 15 July 2026.