On Thursday the Department for Education published the final validated GCSE results for 2024. Balcarras achieved a Progress 8 Score of +0.83. This was the highest in the school’s history and places us in the top 5% of all schools nationally for progress. Progress 8 is a way of measuring the...

Balcarras has been rated 191st in the list of the top 200 schools in the country for sport as ranked by the Schools Sports Magazine. The annual league table is published in January and rates school sport participation across 20 different sports and well over 100 different competitions. This put...

Theatre tickets are now available to see the Addams family in Birmingham.  Together with shopping time in the morning before the matinee show in the afternoon.  Ticket costs are £40 per student. This includes Coach, the show, and an ice lolly. 

Click here for the Year 11 Mock exam timetable for March 2025.

This term, Y8 students visited the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum in London.

After winning the Cheltenham district 7 a side football tournament in Tewkesbury last month, the Year 8 & 9 girls went through to the next round, which was held Oak Land Park, Bristol. The girls won their group comfortable, never conceding a goal. They then had to play Kings Oak in the...

This week is National Apprenticeship week

We have teamed up with Cheltenham Air Quality Education Projects to install two pollution monitors at Balcarras.

Pupils represented Balcarras in National Schools Squash Competition

Pupils run Philosophy fortnight