Academy · Gloucestershire
Balcarras School
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Sixth form
Term dates
Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Gloucestershire council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 239 families put this school as their first choice, and 181 places were offered. 175 of the families who put it first got a place (73%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 181 | 239 | 73% |
| September 2025 | 185 | 255 | 71% |
| September 2024 | 190 | 231 | 81% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
Before and after school
This club is registered with Ofsted at the school's postcode, so usually run on the school site:
- Move More Camps, holiday club. Ofsted report
Ask the club or the school about times, prices and places. More clubs nearby.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 4 March 2025. No overall grade was given (Ofsted stopped giving one in September 2024).
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Sixth form
- Outstanding
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Academy
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 1427 (capacity 1359)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- THE BALCARRAS TRUST
- Phone
- 01242515881
- Address
- East End Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL53 8QF
- Website
- balcarras.gloucs.sch.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.