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Secondary school in Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire

Weavers Academy

Brickhill Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 3JH

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01933222830

Ofsted

Goodas at 25 May 2022

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 25 May 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 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

39.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

29% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

48% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

21% 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 lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.39confidence interval -0.57 to -0.20

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
28.1

England average 32.3

A level students
53

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1275
Places
1504
How full
85% full — 1275 of 1504 places taken
Girls / boys
640 / 635
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
23%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
33%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
26%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
3%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
90%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
84%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
31%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
234

After sixth form

Went to university
55%

England 50%

In education, work or training
88%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
67

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

7% 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
76%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
41

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 North Northamptonshire 033D, 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
19%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
25%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
59%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
29%

England 17%

Households with no car
21%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

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
CREATIVE EDUCATION TRUST
Headteacher
Associate Principal: Emma Merry
Local authority
North Northamptonshire
Ward
Brickhill & Queensway
Constituency
Wellingborough and Rushden
URN
139819

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Sir Christopher Hatton AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 50.2 0.9 mi
RefocusOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Wrenn SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 40.9 1.1 mi
Wellingborough SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Wollaston SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 46.1 3.8 mi
Huxlow AcademyAcademy converter No grade 41.9 4.3 mi
Rushden AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 41.6 4.6 mi
The Ferrers SchoolAcademy converter No grade 38.9 5.3 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
Alderwood SchoolCommunity school No grade 42.2
The Astley Cooper SchoolCommunity school No grade 34.7
The Sele SchoolAcademy converter No grade 35.7
Woolwich Polytechnic SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 45.2
Trafalgar SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 43.5
Walderslade SchoolAcademy converter Inadequate 2023 29.9
Robert Clack SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 50.5
Archbishop Tenison's CofE High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 45.3

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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