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Secondary school in Doncaster

Trinity Academy

Church Balk, Thorne, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN8 5BY

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form Christian
School website 01405813000

Ofsted

Goodas at 16 April 2024

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 16 April 2024.

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

42.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

41% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

63% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

43% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half 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 better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.49confidence interval -0.68 to -0.30

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
26.2

England average 32.3

A level students
65

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1176
Places
1470
How full
80% full — 1176 of 1470 places taken
Girls / boys
611 / 565
Overall absence
8%

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
39%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
12%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
91%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
81%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
52%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
211

After sixth form

Went to university
41%

England 50%

In education, work or training
79%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
90

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

22% 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
61%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
59

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 Doncaster 003B, 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
30%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
72%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
20%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
45%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Christian
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
EMMANUEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
Headteacher
Principal: Victoria Gibson
Local authority
Doncaster
Ward
Thorne & Moorends
Constituency
Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
URN
135007

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Ash Hill AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 46.9 3.6 mi
The Axholme AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 38.4 5.2 mi
The Snaith SchoolAcademy converter No grade 46.3 6.3 mi
Hungerhill SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.2 6.6 mi
Armthorpe AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 39.5 6.7 mi
Goole AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 49.9 7.1 mi
Outwood Academy DanumAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 42.8 7.7 mi
South Axholme AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 53.2 8 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
All Saints Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2022 51.3
Biddick AcademyAcademy converter No grade 42.5
Mercia AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.6
Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreCommunity school No grade 41.1
Leeds West AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 41.7
John Whitgift AcademyAcademy converter No grade 48.1
Louth AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 45
George Pindar SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 33.4

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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