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Secondary school in Newport, Isle of Wight

Medina College

Fairlee Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2DX

Ofsted Requires improvement · 2020 Sixth form
School website 01983526523

Ofsted

Requires improvementas at 21 January 2020

Graded Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 21 January 2020.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 6 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

35.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

30% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

46% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

15% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% 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

No Progress 8 score published for this school.

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

England average 32.3

A level students
191

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1094
Places
1650
How full
66% full — 1094 of 1650 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
598 / 496
Overall absence
15%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
43%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
36%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
5%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
17%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
89%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
38%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
157

After sixth form

Went to university
41%

England 50%

In education, work or training
85%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
287

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

10% 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
52%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
176

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 Isle of Wight 008A, 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
26%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
19%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
82%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
12%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
49%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
HISP MULTI ACADEMY TRUST LTD
Headteacher
Head Teacher: Jess Paul
Local authority
Isle of Wight
Ward
Fairlee & Whippingham
Constituency
Isle of Wight West
URN
150099

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Christ The King CollegeVoluntary aided school Requires improvement 2023 44.8 1.7 mi
Carisbrooke CollegeAcademy converter Requires improvement 2023 41.4 1.8 mi
Priory SchoolOther independent school No grade 2 mi
Cowes Enterprise College, An Ormiston AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 42.7 3.7 mi
Lift RydeAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 43.8 4.8 mi
Ryde School with Upper ChineOther independent school No grade 5.2 mi
The Bay Church of England SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2023 38.3 6.6 mi
King's Academy Bay HouseAcademy converter No grade 43.8 7.3 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
Stamford Welland AcademyAcademy converter Good 2021 39.7
Twickenham SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 46.5
CranbourneCommunity school No grade 42.7
Northfleet Technology CollegeFoundation school Good 2022 35.7
Sir John Thursby Community CollegeFoundation school Good 2023 41
Oasis Academy John WilliamsAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 46.9
Charles Read AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 37.6
Pool AcademyAcademy converter No grade 41.8

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.
  • 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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