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State all-through · 2 to 19 · Mixed · 1,820 pupils

Swindon Academy

Beech Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1JR
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Ofsted report card · May 2026Top 22% (3/14)Oversubscribed · 1.1 first choices per place (2026)
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Summary

The key facts, in one place
GCSE (key stage 4) The league rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase on the newest year's DfE results, the same rank as on the Schools map. In England: 1,240th of 3,223 on the same figure. Band: Top 22%.
Top 22% (3/14)Rank among 14 Swindon secondaries with results, 2026 results (Attainment 8)
See the Swindon league table →
Inspection
Ofsted report card, May 2026
Getting in
Oversubscribed; last offer 1.27 mi (2026)
Results
+0.61 progress 8; 48.3 attainment 8
Size
1,820 pupils; 200 places a year; classes of 23
Run by
United Learning Trust
Type
Academy sponsor led
Ages
2 to 19 · Mixed
Strengths, and things to check
  • Progress 8: +0.61, against +0.00 in Swindon.
  • Attainment 8: 48.3, against 45.8 in Swindon.
  • Expected standard: 44%, against 60% in Swindon.
  • Higher standard: 2%, against 8% in Swindon.
Could your child get in?Offers reached between 1.18 and 2.06 miles in the last 3 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.Check a postcode ↓ Schools for usRank every school near you by the measures that matter to your family, each reason shown.Rank schools →

At a glance

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SourceWhere these figures come from

How it is worked outSwindon and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state secondary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.

Against Swindon and England
This schoolSwindonEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Academic
Expected standardThe share of Year 6 pupils who reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths together, from the key stage 2 tests and teacher assessment.
44%
Worse than Swindon
Higher standardThe share who reached the higher standard in all three. A small year group can swing this a lot from one year to the next.
2%
Worse than Swindon
Progress 8How far pupils progressed between the end of primary school and GCSEs, against pupils across England who started at the same level. 0 is average; +0.5 means half a grade better in each subject.
+0.61
Better than Swindon
Attainment 8The average GCSE score across eight subjects, including English and maths counted twice. A grade 5 in all eight would score 50.
48.3
Better than Swindon
English and maths, grade 5+The share of pupils with grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE (a strong pass).
54%
Better than Swindon
Attendance and behaviour
Sessions missedHalf-day sessions missed, authorised or not, as a share of all sessions in the school year (DfE pupil absence). Lower is better.
8.2%
In line with Swindon
Persistently absentPupils who missed one session in ten or more. Lower is better.
22.8%
In line with Swindon
Suspensions per 100 pupilsSuspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Lower is better; one or two incidents move a small school a lot.
36.8
Worse than Swindon
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
23.2
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
35%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
19.4
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Year 7 place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
1.1
More sought after than Swindon
COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · YEAR 7 2027
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SourceSwindon Borough Council offer-day figures, 2024 to 2026.

How it is worked outThe bars show how far the last place offered reached each year. A full bar means everyone who applied was offered a place; a dash means we hold no distance for that year. Your postcode is set against each year's last distance.

Things to know
  • A record of past years, not a promise: the distance changes every year with who applies.

Offers reached between 1.18 and 2.06 miles in the last 3 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home.

Free, no account needed. Your postcode is used for this check and not kept.

Offers

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Year 7. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Last distance offeredAdd your home to this chart
2.5 mi1.250
202420252026

Offer day, year by year

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SourceCouncil offer-day figures: Swindon Borough Council, 2022 to 2026.

Things to know
  • Distances are straight lines from the school.
EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Year 72026200441200—1.27
Year 72025—417200—1.18
Year 72024—392——2.06
Reception20269091——2.63
Reception202590100——1.63
Reception2024120106——1.94
Reception202312096———
Reception2022120108——3.61

A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Quality

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SourceOfsted · inspected 19 May 2026
DfE school performance tables · 2023/2024
DfE school performance tables · 2025/2026

  • Ofsted report card (Achievement: Expected standard; Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met)
  • Progress 8: +0.61 (England +0.01) (county +0.00)
  • Attainment 8: 48.3 (England 47.4) (county 45.8)
  • English and maths grade 5 or above: 54% (England 48%) (county 46%)

Results

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SourceDfE school performance tables, 2023/2024, 2024/2025, 2025/2026.

MeasureThis schoolEnglandCouncilYear
Progress 8+0.61+0.01+0.002023/2024
Attainment 848.347.445.82025/2026
English and maths grade 5 or above54%48%46%2025/2026
Reading, writing and maths: expected standard44%62%60%2024/2025
Reading, writing and maths: higher standard2%8%8%2024/2025

League table place

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SourceDfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase.

TableLeague rank
Primary (key stage 2)(50/56)
GCSE (key stage 4)Top 22% (3/14)
A level (16 to 18)(4/7)

Where leavers go

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SourceDfE, destination measures.

Things to know
  • A figure DfE hides for a small group is left out, not shown as nought. The newest year may be provisional.
StageLeavers inPupilsIn a sustained placeOf which
After GCSEs2023/2418884%In education 81%; Apprenticeship 2.1%; Employment 0.5%
After GCSEs2022/2319187%In education 81%; Apprenticeship 3.1%; Employment 2.6%
After GCSEs2021/2216291%In education 84%; Apprenticeship 1.9%; Employment 5.6%
After sixth form2023/247375%Further education 2.7%; Apprenticeship 0.0%; Employment 18%
After sixth form2022/236486%Further education 0.0%; Apprenticeship 6.3%; Employment 27%
After sixth form2021/227179%Further education 4.2%; Apprenticeship 7.0%; Employment 32%
Swindon league tableEvery school of this phase in the council on these results.See the table →

Daily life and who goes there

Daily life

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SourceDfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level · 2024/25
DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level · 2024/25
DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
DfE, school workforce · November 2025
DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024

  • Absence: 8.2% of sessions missed; 23% of pupils miss 1 in 10 or more. Schools with a similar intake: 9.0% and 27%
  • Suspensions: 37 per 100 pupils (schools with a similar intake: 20); 0 permanent exclusions
  • Classes average 23.2 pupils; 21% of classes have more than 30
  • 19.4 pupils for each teacher
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 174 m
  • 17 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 2 serious)
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 8.5 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.9 (1 km square, background level)

Absence

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SourceDfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level, 2024-25.

Things to know
  • Similar intake: state schools of the same phase with free school meals in the same band (30-40%), the median of 654 schools.
YearSessions missedAuthorisedUnauthorisedPupils missing 1 in 10Pupils missing 1 in 2
2024/258.2%4.9%3.3%23%5.2%
2023/249.1%5.0%4.1%23%5.6%
2022/238.4%4.4%4.0%22%3.9%
Schools with a similar intake9.0%27%

Suspensions and exclusions

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SourceDfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.

YearSuspensions per 100 pupilsPupils suspendedSuspensionsPermanent exclusions
2024/2536.811%6820
2023/2415.06.3%2802
2022/2319.47.2%3668
Schools with a similar intake19.7

Class sizes and staff

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SourceDfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size23.22025/26
Classes over 30 pupils21%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher19.4November 2025

Stops nearby

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SourceDfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current.

Things to know
  • A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.
KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus174

Road collisions within 500 m

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SourceDfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025.

Things to know
  • 2 serious and 0 fatal in all; 4 involved a pedestrian, 5 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.
YearCollisions
20254
20242
20234
20223
20214

Air quality

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SourceDEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Things to know
  • A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.
PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO28.52024
PM1010.62024
PM256.92024

Who goes there

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SourceDfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals35%2025/26
First language other than English40%2025/26
SEN support17%2025/26
Education, health and care plan2.3%2025/26
Girls49%2025/26

Ofsted

Ofsted, May 2026The judgements from the school's latest inspection. Reports from November 2025 use Ofsted's new report card, with different headings; we show whichever the latest report uses.Read the report ↗
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and wellbeingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
InclusionExpected standard
Safeguarding standardsMet

Inspections

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SourceOfsted, 2026.

DateKindOutcome
19 May 2026Report card7 areas graded
8 June 2022Ungraded visitSchool remains Good

Admissions

Getting in

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SourceDfE, school applications and offers · Year 7 2026

  • 224 families put it first for 200 places; 187 of them got in
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Applications and offers, DfE

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SourceDfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2015 to 2026.

Things to know
  • Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.
EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Year 72026200224442187
Reception202666659165
Year 72025200232416192
Reception2025656510065
Year 72024200193391186
Reception2024737310673
Year 72023185198331176
Reception202378779477
Year 72022172218296171
Reception2022878710887

Feeder school rules

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SourceThe admission arrangements the school or council published.

How it is worked outQuoted word for word from those arrangements.

Things to know
  • Check the quote against the school's own current admission policy before you rely on it: rules change each year.

We found no priority for named primary schools in the arrangements for 2027/28 (the document). Our tools read it, but nobody has read it line by line.

Who runs it

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SourceDfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined September 2007
DfE, open academies list
DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 September 2007

  • United Learning Trust, with 98 schools
  • Opened as an academy (sponsored) on 1 September 2007
  • Replaced Headlands (URN 134981)
  • Replaced Pinehurst Junior School (URN 126224)
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Fees and clubs

State schools charge no tuition fees. Breakfast clubs, after-school clubs and holiday clubs are set by each school: ask the school what it runs and what it costs.

Childcare costsWhat wraparound care and early years places cost, and what funding covers.See costs →

Nearby

Schools nearby

Nova Hreod Academy0.9 miUTC Swindon1.4 miKingsdown School1.4 miSt Joseph's Catholic College1.5 miCompare side by side →

Nurseries nearby

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SourceOfsted early years register.

Learning Tree Pre-School (Swindon) Limited0.3 miles
Little Pippins Preschool0.5 miles
Poppies Nursery0.7 miles
Arc All Aboard Nursery0.8 miles
Homes in reach of this schoolLook up any home near here: its sales, an open-data valuation, and which schools it keeps in reach.Search homes →

Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Swindon Borough Council
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE school performance tables
  • DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level
  • DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
  • DfE, destination measures
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026 (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

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