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Secondary school in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

E-Act Bourne End Academy

New Road, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, SL8 5BW

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01628819022

Ofsted

Goodas at 27 September 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 27 September 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 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

38 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

22% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

52% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

25% 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 second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.18confidence interval -0.42 to 0.06

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
D
Average points per entry
20.3

England average 32.3

A level students
34

Pupils

Pupils on roll
707
Places
830
How full
85% full — 707 of 830 places taken
Girls / boys
363 / 344
Overall absence
13%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
38%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
32%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
14%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
8%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
21%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
96%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
88%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
35%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
142

After sixth form

Went to university
44%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
19%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
32

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

8% 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
53%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
36

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 Buckinghamshire 060B, 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
46%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
11%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
75%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
6%

England 17%

Households with no car
10%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
38%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
E-ACT
Headteacher
Headteacher: Natalie King
Local authority
Buckinghamshire
Ward
Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns
Constituency
Beaconsfield
URN
146518

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Great Marlow SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 47.9 2.6 mi
Beaconsfield High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 75.9 3.1 mi
The Beaconsfield SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 43.8 3.2 mi
Sir William Borlase's Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 72.4 3.3 mi
St Michael's Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.1 3.4 mi
Furze Platt Senior SchoolAcademy converter No grade 47.5 3.4 mi
The Highcrest AcademyAcademy converter No grade 38.5 3.5 mi
The Chalfonts Independent Grammar SchoolOther independent school No grade 3.6 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
Hornsey School for GirlsCommunity school Good 2022 49.7
The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts CollegeFoundation school Good 2023 44.4
St Mary Magdalene AcademyAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2023 59.3
St Cuthbert's High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 49
Co-op Academy PriesthorpeAcademy converter Good 2024 41.1
King's Leadership Academy BoltonFree schools Good 2023 45.4
Morecambe Bay AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 36.8
Dinnington High SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2023 42.3

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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