St Aidan's Church of England Academy

General Info

Education Phase
Secondary
Ofsted rating
Good
Jan 7 2020 Ofsted report
Gender
Mixed
Age range
11 - 16 y.o.
Type
Academies
Funding
State-funded secondary
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious Character
Church of England
Sixth Form
Not applicable
Local authority
Darlington
Unique reference
135314
Address
Hundens Lane, DL1 1LL

Pupils

Number of Pupils
598 (78% of total capacity)
Boys
50.2%
Girls
49.8%
First language not English
11%
Free school meals (FSM)
42.6%
Persistent absence
31.7%
Special education needs (SEN)
6.5%
Pupil ethnicities
White British 81.1%
African 7.4%
Other White 4.7%
Other Asian 2%
Mixed 1.6%
Indian 0.8%
Other 0.7%
Other Black 0.5%
Chinese 0.5%
Gypsy/Roma 0.3%
Irish Traveller 0.2%
Bangladeshi 0.2%
Capacity %: Year 2022-2023 Persistent absence and other Pupils data: Year 2023-2024

Exam Results

GCSE Results

Progress 8 score

This school
-0.13
Local authority average, state-funded schools
-0.2
England average, state-funded schools
-0.03

Entering EBacc

School 35%
Local authority average 38%
England average 39%

Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

School 36%
Local authority average 47%
England average 45%

Attainment 8 score

School 42.7
Local authority average 46.3
England average 46.3

EBacc average point score

School 3.43
Local authority average 3.97
England average 4.05
Year 2022-2023

Subjects

GCSE Subjects

SubjectQualificationNumber of entries
Sports StudiesTechnical Award54
Health StudiesTechnical Award30
Art & DesignGCSE23
English LanguageGCSE85
English LiteratureGCSE85
FrenchGCSE31
GeographyGCSE65
HistoryGCSE22
MathematicsGCSE85
Religious StudiesGCSE59
Year 2022-2023

Admissions

St Aidan's Church of England Academy

Admission Policy
Non-selective
Total available places
127
Status
Not oversubscribed
This school is Not Oversubscribed because there were fewer 1st preference applications than available places.

Applications

1st preference
120
2nd preference
34
3rd preference
16
From another Local Authority
1
Breakdown of applications made to this school within the deadline (in-year applications are excluded)

Offers

1st preference
120
2nd preference
0
3rd preference
0
To another Local Authority
0
Breakdown of offers made on National Offer Day (in-year applications are excluded)
Year 2024-2025

Class sizes

Class typeClass size
Average size of one-teacher classes22.7
Year 2023-2024

Cohort sizes

Class type
Total
Boys
Girls
Year 7
120
63
57
Year 8
119
55
64
Year 9
117
62
55
Year 10
119
58
61
Year 11
123
62
61
Year 2023-2024

Participation in Education, Training, Employment

Destinations after GCSEs
School
LA
England
Staying in education
68.0%
85.4%
86.5%
Further education
46.0%
33.0%
34.7%
School sixth form
0.0%
13.1%
37.9%
Sixth form college
22.0%
39.1%
13.1%
Other education destinations
0.0%
0.2%
0.9%
Entering employment
9.0%
4.4%
3.9%
Entering apprenticeships
3.0%
4.3%
3.4%
Not in education or employment
18.0%
5.4%
5.2%
Destination unknown
2.0%
0.5%
1.0%
School: Year 2022-2023 Local authority: Year 2021-2022 England: Year 2021-2022

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