Carleton High School

GCSE results 2024/25

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

Pupils

Pupils on roll

1026

Places

1050

How full

Nearly full — 1026 of 1050 places taken

Girls / boys

514 / 512

Overall absence

7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent

18%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years

30%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language

3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan

3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support

14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training

85%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education

79%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship

2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form

2%

No sustained destination

13%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort

202

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Wakefield 023D, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree

34%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications

15%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home

87%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing

5%

England 17%

Households with no car

13%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive

47%

England 39.9%

School details

Type

Academy converter

Phase

Secondary

Ages

Ages 11–16

Gender

Mixed

Admissions

Non-selective

Religious character

None

Sixth form

No

Nursery

No

Boarding

Day school

Trust

PONTEFRACT ACADEMIES TRUST

Headteacher

Headteacher: Shaheen Shariff

Local authority

Wakefield

Ward

Pontefract South

Constituency

Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley

URN

139501

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.