Avanti Fields School
Free schools · 1,236 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.6
Crown Hills Community College has no sixth form. Of the 296 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 64% moved to a sixth form college, 16% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 64% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
French is unusually popular at GCSE: 33% of the year group took it, against 18% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 47.4 against 46.1 across England and 45.5 in Leicester, with 47% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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 Leicester and England.
| Measure | This school | Leicester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 296 | 4,326 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 94% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 92% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 12% | 18% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 64% | 38% | 13% |
| — further education college | 16% | 29% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | — | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 4% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 5% | 3% |
| Measure | This school | Leicester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 47.4 | 45.5 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 47% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 66% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 30% | 40% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.09 | 4.02 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 26% | 32% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 42.3 | 35.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 49.2 | 50.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 84% | 55% | 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 285 | 99% | 88% | 23% | 22% | 69% |
| English Literature | 285 | 99% | 86% | 18% | 21% | 79% |
| English Language | 285 | 99% | 89% | 19% | 20% | 73% |
| Combined Science | 232 | 81% | 65% | 9% | 9% | 50% |
| Geography | 166 | 58% | 41% | 11% | 25% | 50% |
| History | 126 | 44% | 41% | 24% | 26% | 67% |
| French | 94 | 33% | 18% | 28% | 29% | 68% |
| Citizenship Studies | 89 | 31% | 3% | 8% | 19% | 73% |
| Religious Studies | 69 | 24% | 31% | 23% | 32% | 64% |
| Biology | 53 | 18% | 23% | 53% | 45% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 53 | 18% | 23% | 55% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 53 | 18% | 23% | 47% | 46% | 96% |
| 3D Design | 43 | 15% | 2% | 2% | 16% | 26% |
| Graphic Communication | 37 | 13% | 1% | 16% | 23% | 51% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 34 | 12% | 8% | 9% | 21% | 38% |
| Textiles | 33 | 11% | 2% | 0% | 27% | 24% |
| Fine Art | 24 | 8% | 9% | 13% | 28% | 96% |
| Computer Science | 21 | 7% | 13% | 62% | 30% | 100% |
| Physical Education | 20 | 7% | 11% | 0% | 24% | 60% |
| Photography | 17 | 6% | 6% | 24% | 19% | 41% |
| Music | 12 | 4% | 5% | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| Italian | 5 | 2% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Portuguese | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Spanish | 1 | 0% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Punjabi | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 48% | — |
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 176 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 53 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 27 | — | — |
| Dance: General | 12 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Leicester 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 Leicester’s allocation statistics.
Free schools · 1,236 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.6
Academy converter · 1,339 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.0
Community school · 1,062 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.2
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,143 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.0
Foundation school · 1,441 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.2
Academy sponsor led · 975 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.7
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.