Academic

"The broad and challenging curriculum provides pupils with a wide range of creative, academic and aesthetic experiences."
- ISI Inspection Report 2025

At Prior Park, our curriculum is broad, allowing every child to pursue their interests and follow their passions. We stretch but also support our learners to enable them to venture forth to a future that is fulfilling and fruitful.

GCSEs

Students take an average of ten GCSEs. We help students to set targets and measure their success against their own potential. We encourage them to persevere and to be the very best version of themselves every single day. This is reflected in our results where our value added scores are impressive as, year after year, we draw out the best from our students.

A Levels

In the Sixth Form, the majority of our students take three A Level subjects with the most able choosing a fourth and many choosing to study for the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). Our EPQ results are outstanding with over two thirds of our students gaining an A or A*.

Leavers' Destinations

Our students move on to a wide and exciting range of destinations each year, with many securing places at their first-choice universities across the UK and beyond. These include a broad mix of institutions, from highly competitive universities such as Oxford and Cambridge to a diverse range of other excellent universities offering courses well suited to each individual’s interests and ambitions. A number of students also go on to study medicine and other specialist pathways.

Just as importantly, we recognise that university is not the only route to success. We actively support students in exploring alternatives such as degree apprenticeships with leading employers, as well as more vocational and technical pathways through further and higher education.

What matters most to us is that every student finds the path that is right for them - and leaves us feeling confident, prepared and excited for what comes next.

Personal Learning Devices

All students at Prior are issued with a school provided Personal Learning Device (PLD), a powerful Windows 11 laptop with a touchscreen and an active pen, for use in lessons and at home. The PLD allows students to access the teams and digital notebooks for each of their classes. The PLD programme is charged as a non-optional extra – more details on this are available in the fees schedule.