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Secondary school in Carlisle, Cumberland

Trinity School

Strand Road, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA1 1JB

Sixth form Church of England Full
School website 01228516051

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 19 November 2024.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

41.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

30% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

53% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

31% 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 least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.14confidence interval -0.31 to 0.04

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
C
Average points per entry
29.5

England average 32.3

A level students
138

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1711
Places
1500
How full
Full — 1711 pupils against 1500 places
Girls / boys
851 / 860
Overall absence
10%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
27%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
22%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
21%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
91%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
77%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
9%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
40%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
249

After sixth form

Went to university
48%

England 50%

In education, work or training
92%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
166

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

16% 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
164

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 Carlisle 006B, 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
39%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
32%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
47%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
36%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
TRINITY SCHOOL, A CHURCH OF ENGLAND ACADEMY
Headteacher
Headteacher: David Samson
Local authority
Cumberland
Ward
Castle
Constituency
Carlisle
URN
137369

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Richard Rose Central AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 42.3 0.3 mi
Austin FriarsOther independent school No grade 1 mi
St John Henry Newman Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 41 1.7 mi
Richard Rose Morton AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 43.4 1.9 mi
Caldew SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 44.3 4 mi
Lime House SchoolOther independent school No grade 5.8 mi
William Howard SchoolAcademy converter No grade 45 8.2 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
The Priory SchoolFoundation school Good 2022 48.5
St Oscar Romero Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 55.1
Norton Hill AcademyAcademy converter No grade 50.2
Glenthorne High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 61.6
The Eastwood AcademyAcademy converter No grade 51.6
The Becket SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 57.3
Etonbury AcademyAcademy converter No grade 45.5
Tewkesbury AcademyAcademy converter No grade 43.1

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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