Ribston Hall High School

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.

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

See Gloucestershire's full dates

Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK

Selective school: Year 7 entry is by an entrance test (the 11+). Registration for the test usually closes in the summer of Year 5.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 152 families put this school as their first choice, and 149 places were offered. 75 of the families who put it first got a place (49%). More families put it first than there were places.

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.

11+ entrance test

This school uses Gloucestershire Grammar Schools Entrance Test, a shared test used by 6 other schools. Your child sits one test, and the result is shared with every school in the group that you apply to.

How shared 11+ tests work

Before and after school

This club is registered with Ofsted at the school's postcode, so usually run on the school site:

• Stagecoach Gloucester. Ofsted report

Ask the club or the school about times, prices and places. More clubs nearby.

Ofsted inspection

Report card, 12 May 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.

Inclusion

Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching

Strong standard

Achievement

Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour

Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Strong standard

Sixth form

Expected standard

Leadership and governance

Expected standard

Safeguarding standards: met.

Read the Ofsted reports

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

939 (capacity 1000)

Gender

Girls

Academy trust

RIBSTON HALL HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST

Admissions

Selective (entrance test)

Phone

01452382249

Address

Stroud Road, Gloucester, GL1 5LE

Website

ribstonhall.gloucs.sch.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports