Earl Mortimer College
Community school · 502 pupils
72% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.5
Community school
Aylestone School
- Pupils on roll
- 443of 450 places
- Free school meals
- 30.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 89
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 9 July 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Aylestone School has no sixth form. Of the 90 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 39% moved to a sixth form college, 50% to a further education college and 3% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 39% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 36.3 against 46.1 across England and 44.7 in Herefordshire, County of, with 29% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 46% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils 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 Herefordshire, County of and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Aylestone School | Herefordshire, County of | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 90 | 1,788 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 92% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 89% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 8% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 39% | 37% | 13% |
| — further education college | 50% | 38% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 1% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Aylestone School | Herefordshire, County of | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 36.3 | 44.7 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 29% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 48% | 64% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 14% | 36% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 2.99 | 3.95 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 34% | 20% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 26.3 | 33.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 41.3 | 47.5 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 12% | 9% | 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 | 87 | 98% | 89% | 8% | 20% | 47% |
| Mathematics | 87 | 98% | 88% | 14% | 22% | 66% |
| Combined Science | 86 | 97% | 65% | 5% | 9% | 48% |
| English Literature | 85 | 96% | 86% | 2% | 21% | 49% |
| Geography | 45 | 51% | 41% | 2% | 25% | 38% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 41 | 46% | 8% | 5% | 21% | 54% |
| Fine Art | 40 | 45% | 9% | 10% | 28% | 53% |
| Design and Technology | 34 | 38% | 11% | 3% | 23% | 44% |
| History | 31 | 35% | 41% | 10% | 26% | 45% |
| Business Studies | 27 | 30% | 18% | 0% | 20% | 41% |
| Computer Science | 26 | 29% | 13% | 8% | 30% | 46% |
| French | 15 | 17% | 18% | 0% | 29% | 33% |
| Psychology | 13 | 15% | 3% | 8% | 22% | 46% |
| Polish | 3 | 3% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Studies | 29 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 20 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Herefordshire, County of
Fairfield High School
Academy converter · 607 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.3
John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,274 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.7
John Masefield High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 849 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.2
Kingstone High School
Academy converter · 568 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.3
Lady Hawkins' School
Academy converter · 281 pupils
77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.3
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.