Amersham School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,050 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.7
Community special school
Furze Down School
- Pupils on roll
- 223of 220 places
- Free school meals
- 32.0%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 22
- Ofsted
- School remains Outstanding, 21 February 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 20 pupils who finished Year 11 at Furze Down School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Furze Down School’s own sixth form (Buckinghamshire average 61%), 25% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Buckinghamshire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Furze Down School | Buckinghamshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 20 | 6,459 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 100% | 95% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 100% | 91% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 61% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 5% | 13% |
| — further education college | 25% | 22% | 37% |
| — other education | 75% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Furze Down School | Buckinghamshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 1.9 | 53.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 59% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 74% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 43% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.08 | 4.79 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 50% | 16% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 2.3 | 34.5 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 1.5 | 56.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 5% | 19% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 7 | 32% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 29% |
| Mathematics | 7 | 32% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 0% |
Where Furze Down School is
Other secondary schools in Buckinghamshire are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Buckinghamshire’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Buckinghamshire
Aylesbury Grammar School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,346 pupils
99% stayed in education · Attainment 8 74.5
Aylesbury High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,368 pupils
98% stayed in education · Attainment 8 74.3
Aylesbury UTC
University technical college · sixth form · 128 pupils
68% stayed in education · Attainment 8 23.8
Beaconsfield High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,283 pupils
99% stayed in education · Attainment 8 75.9
Buckingham School
Community school · sixth form · 1,110 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.6
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.