Didcot Girls' School A GSG School
- Didcot Girls' School
Manor Crescent
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 7AJ - Head: Georgina Littler
- T 01235 812092
- F 01235 511245
- E head.4139@didcotgirls.oxon.sch.uk
- W www.didcotgirls.oxon.sch.uk/
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Read about the best schools in Oxford and Oxfordshire
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Oxfordshire
- Pupils: 1641; sixth formers: 246
- Religion: Does not apply
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 2
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
- 1 Short inspection 23rd November 2022
- 2 Full inspection 24th November 2015
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- Linked schools: Didcot Sixth Form College
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Didcot Girls’ School is a pioneering success story of comprehensive all girls education where challenge, curiosity and achievement are in the very air the girls breathe. Leadership is a DG cornerstone and there’s endless ways for students to climb a rung on the leadership ladder – we saw many a shiny badge proudly attached to the lapel of a smart burgundy blazer. Non-selective and mixed ability but results are high (and climbing). DGS is consistently on the Oxfordshire state school leaderboard. There’s a no hands-up rule, which means students can’t predict when they will be called upon to give an answer (no coasting) and there’s regular retrieval of…
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2020, Georgina Littler, BA, PGCE. She did her undergraduate degree in modern languages at Nottingham and her PGCE at Oxford. Previously deputy head at the Cotswold School and Tewkesbury School where she taught French and German (she also speaks Spanish). She has taught overseas in Cairo and the Philippines. This is her first headship.
Friendly and engaging, parents tell us head is ‘approachable, fair and supportive’ and many mentioned her lovely rapport with both children and parents. One said, ‘My daughter really looks up to her. She’s a great role model for the girls who respond to her integrity and warmth.’
Head talks passionately about single-sex teaching for girls, saying, ‘The evidence speaks for itself. Girls just do better. Our girls see boys in the sixth...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| The Manor Preparatory School | 2024 | 2 |
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