Great Baddow High School

Duffield Road, Beehive Lane, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 9RZ

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About this school

Great Baddow High School is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in Chelmsford, Essex. The school has 1,528 pupils enrolled. Ofsted: Good (graded inspection, 29 June 2022). Last inspected 24 March 2026. The Headteacher is Paul Farmer. The school is administered by Essex local authority. It belongs to QUANTUM MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST. It opened in 1 July 2011.

School details

Headteacher

Paul Farmer

Trust

QUANTUM MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST

Local authority

Essex

Gender

Mixed

URN

136904

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Great Baddow High School are handled by the school or the local authority (Essex). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

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