Balcarras School Overview

Balcarras School is a secondary & 6th form school located in Cheltenham and reports to the local authority of Gloucestershire.

Balcarras School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 18 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1359 students but currently enrols 1422 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Balcarras School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 81.7% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 2.7% of students at the school.

6.1% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Balcarras School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities