United Kingdom / Regions / Forest of Dean
Forest of Dean
South West, England · population ~87k · 52 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 41 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Forest of Dean
52 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (41 of 52 here), 93.7% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (1.9% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 52 schools.
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Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | 1,068 | Good· | 18/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | 1,063 | Good· | 20/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Dene Magna School | Secondary | 1,006 | Not graded | 08/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Five Acres High School | Secondary | 808 | Good | 08/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Dean Academy | Secondary | 734 | Good | 22/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Forest View Primary School | Primary | 372 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
SGS Forest High School | Secondary | 257 | Requires Improvement | 20/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St White's Primary School | Primary | 250 | Not graded | 05/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Severnbanks Primary School | Primary | 247 | Good | 30/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Tutshill Church of England Primary School | Primary | 213 | Good· | 15/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Coalway Junior School | Primary | 211 | Good | 23/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Mitcheldean Endowed Primary School | Primary | 210 | Good· | 23/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Primrose Hill Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | 210 | Good | 18/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Lydney Church of England Community School | Primary | 209 | Good· | 20/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Berry Hill Primary School | Primary | 205 | Not graded | 03/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Bream Church of England Primary School | Primary | 180 | Good | 28/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Yorkley Primary School | Primary | 172 | Good | 17/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Picklenash Junior School | Primary | 161 | Not graded | 25/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St John's C of E Academy | Primary | 154 | Good | 19/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Heart of the Forest Community Special School | Special | 143 | Good· | 25/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.