Welcome from our Co-Headteachers
We are a vibrant school community which empowers girls to become resilient and to fulfil their potential as future leaders.
Welcome to Didcot Girls’ School. As the only all-girls’ comprehensive in Oxfordshire, we are proud of the superb opportunities we offer to all of our girls to develop in an environment which fosters resilience, leadership skills and a commitment to the highest educational standards. We have the highest ambitions for all our students, whatever their starting points. Our co-educational , shared with , offers excellent progression to study in a vibrant and growing Sixth Form community. 51吃瓜网 is consistently one of the highest performing schools both in Oxfordshire and the UK. In November 2022, Ofsted judged the overall effectiveness of our school to be Outstanding once again. We are pleased that the report recognises and validates our mission statement (provided above), describing the distinctive elements of our provision. Please click to read the report in full. In August 2012, the school converted to academy status and created the Ridgeway Education Trust. Recent years have seen further growth, and we are now a Trust of 8 schools. We are delighted with the opportunities the growth of the Trust has created to further strengthen collaboration between our schools.
Our core values of inclusion, respect and high expectations underpin all that we do as a learning community. We work in partnership with our students, who actively participate in the running and decision-making of the school. There is a wide range of opportunities for student leadership including House and Deputy House Captains, Sports Captains, Science, Reading and Music Ambassadors, and Student Council representatives, and these are recognised and celebrated through the Leadership Ladder which runs from Years 7-11. We offer a rich choice of extra-curricular clubs, over forty each week, and encourage all of our students to participate. The House system is a strong feature of the school and this facilitates girls mixing across year groups to foster friendly but fierce competition, and to focus on powerful and influential female role models. The seven Houses are named after Helena Kennedy, Ellen MacArthur, Jacqueline Wilson, Susan Greenfield, Jessica Ennis, Darcey Bussell and Kate Adie.
Summer 2025 GCSE results were superb with 87% of all students achieving 4+ in English and Maths, and 72% doing the same at 5+. Results at A level in the mixed sixth form shared with our partner school, St Birinus School, are also extremely strong with 35% of grades awarded as A* or A and 65% achieving Grades A*-B. These results place us as one of the highest performing schools in the county.
We focus on the wellbeing of our students alongside academic excellence and a vibrant extra-curricular provision. It is important to us that our girls are known and valued as individuals and that they enjoy their time with us. We have a great team of highly qualified and committed pastoral staff dedicated to supporting students and their families, including school counsellors.
We are immensely proud of Didcot Girls’ School. Our girls are strong, confident and passionate: they are ambitious and aspirational for themselves and their futures, and yet deeply conscious of their role in creating a caring and just society. We are a vibrant community of students, staff, parents and governors which is truly 'committed to excellence' in all that we do. There is no better way of judging a school than making a visit on a normal school day and we are always very happy to welcome visitors. We very much look forward to welcoming you to our school.
