United Kingdom / Regions / Swindon
Swindon
South West, England · population ~223k · 87 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 71 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Swindon
87 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 (71 of 87 here), 92.9% 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 (1.1% 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 87 schools.
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Swindon Academy | Secondary | 1,854 | Good· | 08/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,573 | Good | 18/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Joseph's Catholic College | Secondary | 1,433 | Good· | 08/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Commonweal School | Secondary | 1,382 | Good· | 14/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lydiard Park Academy | Secondary | 1,287 | Good· | 06/12/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Abbey Park School | Secondary | 1,182 | Good | 17/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Nova Hreod Academy | Secondary | 1,059 | Good· | 16/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Kingsdown School | Secondary | 1,029 | Good | 19/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Great Western Academy | Secondary | 1,025 | Good | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lawn Manor Academy | Secondary | 940 | Good | 11/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Dorcan Academy | Secondary | 888 | Good | 12/07/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Deanery CofE Academy | Secondary | 768 | Inadequate | 12/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Drove Primary School | Primary | 731 | Good | 02/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Even Swindon Primary School | Primary | 691 | Good· | 09/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Highworth Warneford School | Secondary | 630 | Requires Improvement | 05/04/2022 | Ofsted |
Haydonleigh Primary School | Primary | 555 | Not graded | — | OfstedWebsite |
Goddard Park Community Primary School | Primary | 523 | Good· | 19/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lawn Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 489 | Good· | 22/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lethbridge Primary School | Primary | 476 | Good· | 24/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Red Oaks Primary School | Primary | 464 | Good· | 25/01/2024 | 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.