Oakbank
Hyde End Lane, Ryeish Green, Reading, RG7 1ER
This school is closed (it closed in August 2025).
It was replaced by Oakbank School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Free schools
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Principal
- Mrs Danielle Finlay
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious ethos
- None
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 560
- Pupils on roll
- 406
- URN
- 138367
- Local authority
- Wokingham
About this school
Oakbank was a secondary academy in Reading. It taught children aged 11 to 16 and had 406 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Oakbank has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in September 2012, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 96 | 105 | 92 |
| Attainment 8 score | 41.8 | 41.8 | 41.3 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.35 -0.64 to -0.07 | -0.38 -0.66 to -0.10 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 38% | 42.9% | 38% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 67% | 61% | 57.6% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 20% | 20% | 16.3% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
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 Oakbank has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Wokingham average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 41.8 | 38.4 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 41.8 | 43.9 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 41.3 | 42.2 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 11.8% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 10.8% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 11.5% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 553 |
| 2023/24 | 522 |
| 2024/25 | 406 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Oakbank compares
Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 43% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 5% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 41.3 | 11.5% | 34.5% | 406 | — |
| Oakbank School | — | — | — | 300 | 0.0 miles |
| Hartland High School | — | 17.5% | 41.7% | 589 | 1.5 miles |
| Reading Girls' School | 51.8 | 8% | 28.3% | 905 | 2.3 miles |
| Maiden Erlegh School | 55.5 | 7% | 7.3% | 1,841 | 2.9 miles |
| Reading School | 83 | 4.5% | 9% | 1,138 | 3.1 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.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 34.48%
- English as an additional language
- 9.1%
- Overall absence
- 11.48%
- Persistent absence
- 34.15%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Oakbank School0.0 miles
Secondary · Reading
-
Hartland High School1.5 miles
Secondary · Reading
-
Reading Girls' School2.3 miles
Secondary · Reading
-
Maiden Erlegh School2.9 miles
Secondary · Reading
-
Reading School3.1 miles
Secondary · Reading
Other schools in Reading
- Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School Secondary
- Denefield School Secondary
- Hartland High School Secondary
- Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre Secondary
- Kendrick School Secondary
- King's Academy Prospect Secondary
- Langtree School Secondary
- Little Heath School Secondary
- Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge Secondary
- Maiden Erlegh School Secondary
- Maiden Erlegh School in Reading Secondary
- Oakbank School Secondary
Common questions
- What year groups does Oakbank teach?
- Oakbank taught children aged 11 to 16. It was a secondary school in Reading.
- Has Oakbank been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Oakbank under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Oakbank?
- Oakbank had 406 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 16.
- How have Oakbank's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 41.8 in 2022/23 and 41.3 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Oakbank's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Oakbank'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 31 August 2025.