The Friary School

Schools we chose for benchmarking

This is the set of similar schools we've chosen to benchmark this school's pupil and workforce data against.

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We've chosen 30 similar schools to benchmark this school against running cost categories, which includes all staffing (excluding premises staff), ICT, consultancy and catering.

How we chose these schools

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  • number of pupils
  • pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM)
  • pupils with special educational needs (SEN), or proportion of various SEN provisions for special schools
Schools we've chosen
School Type Number of pupils Pupils with special educational needs Pupils eligible for free school meals
The Friary School
(Your chosen school)
Secondary 1,232 10.3% 15.4%
Brooke Weston Academy
Great Oakley, NN18 8LA
Secondary 1,187 11.7% 14.7%
Samuel Ward Academy
Haverhill, CB9 0LD
Secondary 1,177 10.7% 15.3%
The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High School
Chester, CH3 5XF
Secondary 1,179 13.4% 14.2%
Swavesey Village College
Cambridge, CB24 4RS
Secondary 1,254 7.8% 14.1%
Chosen Hill School
Gloucester, GL3 2PL
Secondary 1,317 9.4% 16.2%
Congleton High School
Congleton, CW12 4NS
Secondary 1,270 9.6% 12.6%
Erasmus Darwin Academy
Burntwood, WS7 3QW
Secondary 1,130 13.5% 14.1%
Chesterton Community College
Cambridge, CB4 3NY
Secondary 1,122 9.4% 15.7%
The Coleshill School
Birmingham, B46 3EX
Secondary 1,237 12.5% 19%
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form
Braintree, CM7 1WY
Secondary 1,294 10.1% 14.3%
King Edward VI Five Ways School
Birmingham, B32 4BT
Secondary 1,301 6.8% 16.2%
Hounsdown School
Southampton, SO40 9FT
Secondary 1,300 13.2% 14.9%
The Sandon School
Chelmsford, CM2 7AQ
Secondary 1,278 12% 13.2%
Chelmer Valley High School
Chelmsford, CM1 7ER
Secondary 1,146 8.6% 15.9%
The Becket School
West Bridgford, NG2 7QY
Secondary 1,186 6.8% 14.2%
John Ferneley College
Melton Mowbray, LE13 1LH
Secondary 1,182 10.3% 15.5%
Cox Green School
Maidenhead, SL6 3AX
Secondary 1,204 13% 16.4%
Hungerhill School
Doncaster, DN3 2JY
Secondary 1,177 12.2% 16%
Sacred Heart High School
London, W6 7DG
Secondary 1,136 12.3% 14.6%
St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy
Sunderland, SR2 7JN
Secondary 1,321 9.3% 17.3%
St Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Lanchester
Durham, DH7 0RD
Secondary 1,315 6.8% 16%
De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire
Loughborough, LE11 4SQ
Secondary 1,300 9.7% 13.6%
All Hallows Catholic College
Macclesfield, SK11 8LB
Secondary 1,238 14.3% 13.7%
Idsall School
Shifnal, TF11 8PD
Secondary 1,238 10.5% 13.9%
Chew Valley School
Bristol, BS40 8QB
Secondary 1,205 11.5% 14.7%
John Taylor Free School
Burton-on-Trent, DE13 9SA
Secondary 1,258 13.4% 16.8%
English Martyrs' Catholic School, A Voluntary Academy
Leicester, LE4 0FJ
Secondary 1,148 11.8% 14.5%
Cheslyn Hay Academy
Walsall, WS6 7JQ
Secondary 1,262 12.3% 15.3%
The Thomas Adams School
Shrewsbury, SY4 5UB
Secondary 1,226 14.6% 14.4%