Abbeywood Community School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,294 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.0
Community special school
New Horizons Learning Centre
- Pupils on roll
- 75of 64 places
- Free school meals
- 57.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 9
- Ofsted
- Good, 20 February 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
New Horizons Learning Centre has no sixth form. Of the 6 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 17% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
17% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 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.
New Horizons Learning Centre is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 2.1, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.
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 South Gloucestershire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | New Horizons Learning Centre | South Gloucestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 6 | 2,687 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 50% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 50% | 82% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 36% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 11% | 13% |
| — further education college | 17% | 34% | 37% |
| — other education | 33% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 7% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 4% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 17% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 33% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | New Horizons Learning Centre | South Gloucestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 2.1 | 42.9 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 62% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 25% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.11 | 3.73 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 67% | 18% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 31.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 45.4 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 11% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 4 | 44% | 88% | — | 22% | — |
| English Language | 2 | 22% | 89% | — | 20% | — |
| Photography | 1 | 11% | 6% | — | 19% | — |
Other secondary schools in South Gloucestershire
Bradley Stoke Community School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,393 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.6
Brimsham Green School
Community school · sixth form · 1,095 pupils
79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.9
Chipping Sodbury School
Academy converter · sixth form · 775 pupils
79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.7
Digitech Studio School
Studio schools · sixth form · 608 pupils
67% stayed in education · Attainment 8 31.2
Downend School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,415 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.0
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.