Overall Oxbridge
#1,437
4 ranked schools · -523 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
32
Offers
4
Offer rate12.5%
-9.9 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
When the Great Western Railway arrived in Swindon in 1843, it transformed a Domesday-recorded market town of 2,500 into one of the world's largest railway engineering complexes, leaving the Grade II listed Railway Village and the STEAM Museum as enduring monuments. Wiltshire's largest town, with a built-up population of around 225,000, Swindon stretches along the M4 corridor between the Cotswolds and the North Wessex Downs.
GWR trains reach Bristol Temple Meads in under thirty minutes. Wroughton, bordering the North Wessex Downs to the south, is widely regarded as one of the town's most competitive postcodes for state school places, while Penhill draws families seeking primary catchments on the northern side. Rodbourne Cheney and Pinehurst form further settled residential patches, with Ashton Keynes on the rural western fringe offering a quieter setting.
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Area Performance
Across 100 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.06/10, -0.34 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Swindon schools
Swindon vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Swindon schools
top 52% of 14,978
top 52% of 14,978
top 64% of 3,862
top 64% of 3,862
top 66% of 2,555
top 66% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
4 ranked schools · -523 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
32
Offers
4
Oxford
4 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
20
Offers
0
Cambridge
4 ranked schools · -67 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
12
Offers
4
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