Schools in Cirencester
Cirencester, known as the Capital of the Cotswolds, has 21 state schools administered by Gloucestershire County Council. The town draws families from a wide catchment of Cotswold villages, and several popular primaries in the town centre have seen increasing demand as the town has grown. Gloucestershire uses straight-line distance as its standard community school tiebreaker, and places at the most sought-after primaries have gone to applicants within 0.9 miles in recent years.
Secondary admissions in Cirencester are co-ordinated by Gloucestershire County Council. The town has one main secondary school with a sixth form, which serves Cirencester and many of the surrounding villages. The council's annual admissions booklet includes catchment boundary maps and the distances at which places were offered last year.
School demand in Cirencester
Across the 19 schools in Cirencester with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 87%. 4 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
11 schools in Cirencester have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
10 of the schools in Cirencester are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Gloucestershire, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
11 of the schools in Cirencester have a current Ofsted rating, of which 11 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Cirencester: 3 oversubscribed (15)
Rodmarton Primary School
Primary · Community school
Cirencester · GL7 6PE
Stratton Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school
Cirencester · GL7 2NG
Meysey Hampton Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school
Cirencester · GL7 5JS
Ann Edwards Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school
Cirencester · GL7 5UW
Ampney Crucis Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Cirencester · GL7 5SD
Powell's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Cirencester · GL7 2DJ
Sapperton Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Cirencester · GL7 6LQ
Cirencester Primary School
Primary · Community school
Cirencester · GL7 1EX
North Cerney Church of England Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Cirencester · GL7 7BZ
Kemble Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Cirencester · GL7 6AG
Siddington Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Cirencester · GL7 6HL
Chesterton Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Cirencester · GL7 1SS
Bibury Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Cirencester · GL7 5NR
Watermoor Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Cirencester · GL7 1SY
Down Ampney Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Cirencester · GL7 5QR
Secondary Schools in Cirencester (2)
Other Schools in Cirencester (4)
Rendcomb College
Not applicable · Other independent school
Cirencester · GL7 7HA
Cirencester College
All through · Further education
Cirencester · GL7 1XA
Royal Agricultural University
Not applicable · Higher education institutions
Cirencester · GL7 6JS
Paternoster School
Not applicable · Academy special sponsor led
Cirencester · GL7 1JR
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Cirencester are set by Gloucestershire and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.