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Secondary school in Derby

Chellaston Academy

Swarkestone Road, Derby, Derbyshire, DE73 5UB

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 01332702502

Ofsted

Goodas at 12 September 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 12 September 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

49.2 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

50% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

73% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

23% England 40.8%

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 second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.07confidence interval -0.24 to 0.09

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

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.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
36.1

England average 32.3

A level students
169

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1790
Girls / boys
922 / 868
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
15%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
20%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
8%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
10%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
96%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
87%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
46%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
283

After sixth form

Went to university
58%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
15%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
144

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

35% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
80%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
122

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. 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 Derby 030G, 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
37%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
14%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
75%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
14%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
TAPESTRY LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
Headteacher
Headteacher: Damian Leese
Local authority
Derby
Ward
Chellaston & Shelton Lock
Constituency
Derby South
URN
148639

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Noel-Baker AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 36.3 1.2 mi
Alvaston Moor AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2023 32.4 1.6 mi
City of Derby AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 34.8 2.3 mi
Normanton House SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.9 mi
UTC Derby Pride ParkUniversity technical college Good 2023 42 3.4 mi
Repton Preparatory SchoolOther independent school No grade 3.6 mi
Derby Moor Spencer AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 47.7 3.7 mi
West Park SchoolAcademy converter No grade 48.7 4 mi

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.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
St Andrew's CofE High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 41.7
John Masefield High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 46.2
Rossett SchoolAcademy converter No grade 44.1
St Wilfrid's Church of England AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 50.8
Crispin School AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 42.7
The Coleshill SchoolAcademy converter No grade 39.9
Alcester AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 54
Cramlington Learning VillageAcademy converter Good 2022 46.7

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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