Cheam High School is an 11 - 19  co-educational comprehensive academy. It has a strong reputation in the locality and is heavily oversubscribed with approximately 1300 applicants for 300 places each year.

The school has been judged as “outstandingly effective” by Ofsted overall. This overall grade has resulted from the high quality of provision offered across a range of areas.

These strengths include:

• Curriculum offered with its broad choice and focus on students' interests and aspirations
• Quality of teaching and support for learning
• Excellent facilities
• Personal and social development of students
• Pastoral care
• Leadership and management within the school.

Cheam High School is recognised as a centre of excellence for teaching and learning and supports prospective teachers by providing high quality training and professional development that is relevant, personalised and focused on how to best support student progress. We work closely with Teaching School Alliances, Universities and Colleges to provide high quality Initial Teacher Training placements and are committed to building strong partnerships that support all routes into teaching. All ITT placements are offered at the discretion of subject leaders and senior management according to staffing levels and commitments within the relevant subjects. This ensures that we are able to provide a high quality school experience and the very best support for our trainees.

We are very proud of our school and the children and young adults that study here. Our students are excellent ambassadors for the school.  They develop into confident and articulate young adults who are committed to preparing for their future career and study choices.  Examination results show their excellent progress.  We have a high number of students who choose to stay on in the sixth form whilst others secure appropriate courses or apprenticeships with a vocational focus.  At post 16, approximately 200 students progress to university each year.

Our staff are dedicated to providing students with excellent support to thrive at school.  This relates to academic progress as well as extracurricular experiences and pastoral care.  Our staff are well qualified and the school supports them to share best practice so that our standard of teaching and support is both high quality and also continually developing.  Ofsted reports and other reviews of practice, together with our examination results, can all be found in the Performance areas of the website. 

Cheam High School has an excellent staff development programme with a wealth of experienced staff working with teachers and support staff.  The focus is very much to continually strive for outstanding outcomes for students.

Staff are committed to their own development and many take part in helping others to progress.  Staff attendance at training sessions is high and evaluations are very positive for all internal training that we offer.  We run Training and Development fortnights for all staff half termly with training sessions taking place after school.

There are various training routes for staff to follow, please click here for further details.