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All-through school in Daventry, West Northamptonshire

DSLV E-ACT Academy

Hawke Road, Southbrook, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 4LJ

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01327313400

Ofsted

Goodas at 26 April 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 26 April 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 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

37.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

25% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

52% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

11% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter 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 bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.41confidence interval -0.64 to -0.17

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below 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
C-
Average points per entry
27.1

England average 32.3

A level students
21

Pupils

Pupils on roll
997
Places
1200
How full
83% full — 997 of 1200 places taken
Girls / boys
496 / 501
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
26%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
33%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
18%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
86%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
79%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
31%
No sustained destination
11%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
87

After sixth form

Went to university
55%

England 50%

In education, work or training
89%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
7%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
44

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

11% 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
72%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
18

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 West Northamptonshire 022D, 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
17%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
22%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
30%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
56%

England 17%

Households with no car
31%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 3–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
Yes
Boarding
Day school
Trust
E-ACT
Headteacher
Executive Headteacher: Co-headteachers: Hannah Rowe - Primary Sarah Hadlow - Secondary
Local authority
West Northamptonshire
Ward
Daventry South
Constituency
Daventry
URN
138073

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Parker E-ACT AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.9 0.8 mi
Campion SchoolAcademy converter No grade 46.2 7 mi
Ashlawn SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50.4 7.7 mi
Houlton SchoolFree schools Good 2024 7.7 mi
Bilton Grange SchoolOther independent school No grade 8 mi
The Duston SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50 8.3 mi
Quinton House SchoolOther independent school No grade 8.5 mi
Rugby Free Secondary SchoolFree schools No grade 43.7 8.5 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through 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
Patcham High SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 45.5
The John of Gaunt SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 44.3
King James's SchoolAcademy converter No grade 48.5
Bishop Milner Catholic CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 45.9
Worle Community SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2023 40.4
Trentham AcademyAcademy converter No grade 46.6
Ashton Park SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 45.8
St Hilda's Church of England High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 51.8

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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