Overall Oxbridge
#777
21 ranked schools · +137 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
512
Offers
118
Offer rate23.1%
+0.7 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
A cathedral city of around 166,000 whose influence in education, publishing, and motor manufacturing reaches well beyond its Oxfordshire boundaries, Oxford sits at the confluence of the Thames and Cherwell, its college buildings spanning every English architectural style from late Anglo-Saxon to the present. Jericho and Wolvercote anchor the quieter west.
Summertown is among the most sought-after pockets for primary catchments in the city, with Headington on the eastern hill forming a school-competitive stretch valued across phase groups. Cowley, once the base of the Morris Motors works, has steadily evolved into a broader family residential area. Oxford station links the city to Birmingham Moor Street in around an hour and a quarter on Chiltern Railways, with the city's origins traced to the eighth century and formal city status granted in 1542.
Area Performance
Across 92 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.41/10, -0.06 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Oxford schools
Oxford vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Oxford schools
top 51% of 14,978
top 51% of 14,978
top 26% of 3,862
top 26% of 3,862
top 31% of 2,555
top 31% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
21 ranked schools · +137 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
512
Offers
118
Oxford
16 ranked schools · +16 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
233
Offers
38
Cambridge
19 ranked schools · -48 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
279
Offers
80
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