Overall Oxbridge
#471
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
2
Offers
1
Offer rate50.0%
+27.6 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Flanked by the ancient pinewoods of Thetford Forest and threaded by the River Little Ouse, Thetford has anchored the Breckland corner of southwest Norfolk since the Iron Age.
Around 25,000 people live across the town and surrounding parishes, and Watton and Shipdham, the school-competitive belt running north through the heathland, draw families competing for primary places in the district's rural schools. Elveden and Methwold lie further out. Thetford railway station, one of East Anglia's finest surviving pieces of Victorian rail architecture, connects the market town to Norwich via the Breckland line in around thirty minutes.
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Area Performance
Across 20 primary and secondary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 6.76/10, -0.60 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Thetford schools
Thetford vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Thetford schools
top 64% of 14,978
top 64% of 14,978
top 79% of 3,862
top 79% of 3,862
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
2
Offers
1
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · +409 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
2
Offers
1
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