Baylis Court School is a girls' secondary modern foundation school

Foundation school

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 in Slough

Slough

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, Berkshire

Berkshire

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, England

England

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, for students aged 11–18. It is the only single-sex non-selective school in Slough, and has a sixth form

Sixth form

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 which is part of the Herschel Consortium.

After its 2004 inspection of Baylis Court School, the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills reported:

[the school is] a good and effective school; it provides a good quality of education for its pupils.

After a Section 5 inspection on 15 October 2007, the school was rated as 'Outstanding' and, indeed, received this rating in all but two of the 26 criteria that are measured against this standard (i.e. the 1-4 Ofsted criteria).

Ofsted's 2004 report also states: The school population is made up of a very rich cultural mix and comprises:

• Asian or Asian British – Pakistani (57.7 %)
• White – British (13.7 %)
• Asian or Asian British – Indian (12 %)
• Black or Black British – Caribbean (3.7 %)
• Mixed – White and Asian (2.3 %)
• Asian or Asian British – other (2 %)
• Black or Black British – African (1.6 %)
• Mixed – any other (1.5 %)
• Mixed – White and Black Caribbean (1.5 %)

The school was awarded specialist Art College status in February 2007.