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Secondary school in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Paget High School

Burton Road, Branston, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 3DR

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01283248800

Ofsted

Goodas at 4 October 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 4 October 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

38.5 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

32% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

47% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

4% 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

-0.19confidence interval -0.46 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
D+
Average points per entry
21.8

England average 32.3

A level students
41

Pupils

Pupils on roll
606
Places
1034
How full
59% full — 606 of 1034 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
323 / 283
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
28%

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
55%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
86%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
83%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
48%
No sustained destination
9%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
110

After sixth form

Went to university
40%

England 50%

In education, work or training
78%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
9%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
67

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

9% 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
62%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
79

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 East Staffordshire 013D, 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
35%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
14%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
84%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
5%

England 17%

Households with no car
9%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
29%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: L Fenn Griffin
Local authority
Staffordshire
Ward
Branston
Constituency
Burton and Uttoxeter
URN
124392

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
John Taylor Free SchoolFree schools Good 2023 46.4 1.3 mi
Paulet High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 41 1.8 mi
Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 46.7 1.8 mi
Abbot Beyne SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2022 39.4 2.3 mi
John Taylor High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 54.8 3 mi
The de Ferrers AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 46.5 3.1 mi
Mercia AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.6 3.3 mi
The Pingle AcademyAcademy converter No grade 39.2 3.9 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
Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School, CrawleyVoluntary aided school Good 2023 41.7
Carlton AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 45.1
St Mary's Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 58.9
Goresbrook SchoolFree schools No grade 55.6
Belvidere SchoolAcademy converter No grade 39.8
Avonbourne Boys' AcademyAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 47.3
Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 57.7
Rossington All Saints AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 47.4

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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