School report
Example School
England · Co-educational · 720 pupils
Notes
Example School is a fictional demonstration profile. Every figure, source link and inspection detail below is invented to show how a complete Chapel & Tuck report reads — it is not a real school, and its own links point to example.com. The national benchmark lines on the results charts use the real Ofqual/JCQ series.
At a glance
Latest income
£24.8m
Year 2024/25
Reserves
How many months the school could keep running on its savings if its income stopped. More months means a larger safety net.14.0
months of spending
Fee dependency
How much the school relies on fees versus other income. A school funded almost entirely by fees has less of a cushion if pupil numbers fall.86%
of income from fees
Operating stress
How financially stretched this school looks next to similar schools — based on its reserves, whether it runs a surplus or deficit, its income trend and how much it relies on fees. About 99% of comparable schools look more stretched than it, so a higher number is healthier. It's a relative measure, not a verdict.99%
of peers are more stretched
Inspection
A colour summarising the school's most recent inspection outcome. Different inspectorates (ISI, Ofsted, and the Scottish and Welsh bodies) use different systems, so results from different inspectorates aren't directly comparable.Green
ISI · 2024-03-15
Fees
Fees
What Example School publishes for 2026/27 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | £30,000 /yr ≈ £10,000/term | £48,000 /yr ≈ £16,000/term |
| Sixth Form | £31,500 /yr ≈ £10,500/term | £50,400 /yr ≈ £16,800/term |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗ — Illustrative fees for the fictional Example School — figures include VAT (2026/27).
Finances
How it compares
Against schools of 500-999 pupils. The shaded band is the typical peer range (middle 50%); the dot is this school.
Typical peers 6.7 to 17.6 · median 12.9
Typical peers 90% to 97% · median 94%
Typical peers -6.6% to 1.5% · median -2.1%
Typical peers 59% to 66% · median 62% · this school sits beyond that range
Typical peers 0.5× to 1.7× · median 1.0×
Typical peers £22k to £36k · median £28k
Typical peers 100 to 100 · median 100 · this school sits beyond that range
Source: Charity Commission / OSCR filed accounts; peer groups computed across the dataset.
Financial position
A simple green, amber or red rating summarising how financially secure a school looks, based on its published accounts. Green is reassuring; red suggests taking a closer look. It's an indicator, not a verdict.Free reserves cover 14.0 mo · endowment £18.0m · total funds £42.0m
Latest year £1.3m (5.2% of income) · income +4.8%/yr
Comfortable reserves and an operating surplus — a secure position.
Two indicators, not a verdict — check the figures at source above.
Income & expenditure
Five-year trend from filed accounts.
Latest income
£24.8m
Latest spend
£23.5m
Latest result
£1.3m
Years on record
5
Source: Charity Commission / OSCR annual returns.
Where the surplus comes from
Each line as a share of fee income — the clearest read on whether the school pays its way.
3% is the healthy guide
of total income
Source: parsed filed accounts (Charity Commission / OSCR).
Spending breakdown
From the school’s filed accounts.
1% of total spending goes on staff · ~232 employees.
That’s 1% of fee income.
ReinvestmentHow much a school spends on improving its buildings and facilities relative to its fee income — a sign of whether it's investing in its future.
Capital spend
£2.5m
Depreciation
£1.8m
1.4× capex : depreciation — investing in buildings faster than they wear out. Peers typically 1.0×.
Reinvestment ratio: 140.0% of fee income spent on capital.
Source: parsed Charity Commission / OSCR accounts.
Per pupil & bursaries
From filed accounts and pupil numbers.
per pupil
all roles · headcount
of fee income
Source: Charity Commission / OSCR; pupil counts from inspection records.
Peer-group benchmarking
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Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: Excellent
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2024-03-15
- Report age
- 1.3 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Academic results
Exam results
Published results for Example School over time. Where a national figure exists it is shown alongside, for context only — the 2021 outlier reflects that year's teacher-assessed grades across the country, not this school.
GCSE 9-7
This schoolNational · Ofqual GCSE outcomes, all subjects
GCSE 9-4
This schoolNational · Ofqual GCSE outcomes, all subjects
A-level A*-A
This schoolNational · Ofqual/JCQ A-level outcomes, all subjects
A-level A*-B
This schoolNational · JCQ A-level outcomes, all subjects
A-level pass rate
IB average score
Value added & progress — as the school reports it
Schools measure value added in different ways (ALPS, DfE, CEM and others), so these figures are not comparable between schools. Shown as reported, not as a score.
- The school reports: an ALPS value-added score of 2 at A-level in 2025, which it places in the top decile nationally. source
In the school's own words
Context the school publishes that isn't a like-for-like figure — shown as quoted, never plotted or compared.
- 2025 · “In 2025, 67% of GCSE entries were graded 9–7 and every pupil passed at least eight subjects.” source
Source: each school's own published results; national series from Ofqual / JCQ. Hover a point for its source; click to open it.
Leavers' destinations
Where leavers go next, as each school reports it. Schools define and publish these differently, so they're shown as sourced statements — not compared between schools.
2025
2024
- 2024 destinations: 7 places at Oxford or Cambridge, with leavers also taking up places at Imperial, UCL and Edinburgh. source
2023
- 2023: leavers took up places in the US (including two Ivy League offers) and the Netherlands. source
Source: each school's own published destinations.
Curriculum & activities
Subjects
What Example School offers — the subjects on the timetable, not exam performance or how many pupils take each one.
GCSE
A-level
International Baccalaureate
Source: each school's own curriculum pages. Click a subject to open the page it was listed on.
Activities
The co-curricular activities Example School publishes, grouped by kind. A list of what's offered — not a score: a longer list often just means a school lists more, not that it does more.
Teams
Societies
Productions
Programmes
Service
Source: each school's own website. Click an activity to open the page it was listed on.
Catchment
Who lives nearby.
Catchment demographics
These are fictional sample schools, so no catchment data is shown — a real map would give away the school’s actual location. On a live profile, this section maps the demographics of the drive-time catchment (population, age mix, education, occupation and ethnicity), drawn from the 2021 Census.
Data & sources
Where these figures come from, and how complete they are.
- Financial source
- Demonstration data
- Detail level
- Parsed from full accounts
- Latest accounts
- 2025-08-31
- Years on record
- 5
- Accounts age
- 6 months
- Pupil numbers
- 720 (School census (demonstration))
- Components
- complete
- Entity scope
- This school
Computed 2026-07-15 · pipeline demo. Indicators, not verdicts — each is traceable to its source.
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