Beacon Academy
Academy sponsor led · 639 pupils
76% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.5
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Healing Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 751of 1,020 places
- Free school meals
- 16.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 175
- Ofsted
- Good, 12 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Healing School, A Specialist Science and Foundation College (URN 118095, until 1 September 2010).
What the data says
Healing Academy has no sixth form. Of the 186 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 45% moved to a sixth form college, 33% to a further education college and 12% started an apprenticeship.
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 12% of leavers started one, roughly three times the England figure of 3%.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 45% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
French is unusually popular at GCSE: 65% of the year group took it, against 18% 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 North East Lincolnshire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Healing Academy | North East Lincolnshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 186 | 1,778 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 98% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 83% | 81% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 4% | 6% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 45% | 33% | 13% |
| — further education college | 33% | 40% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 12% | 6% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 2% | 9% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Healing Academy | North East Lincolnshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 51.0 | 40.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 62% | 36% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 82% | 56% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 67% | 30% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.83 | 3.50 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 12% | 32% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 32.3 | 32.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 53.5 | 43.6 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 14% | 8% | 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 | 175 | 100% | 88% | 21% | 22% | 85% |
| English Language | 175 | 100% | 89% | 26% | 20% | 85% |
| Combined Science | 173 | 99% | 65% | 22% | 9% | 84% |
| English Literature | 172 | 98% | 86% | 19% | 21% | 83% |
| French | 113 | 65% | 18% | 15% | 29% | 68% |
| History | 95 | 54% | 41% | 19% | 26% | 62% |
| Geography | 93 | 53% | 41% | 27% | 25% | 74% |
| Physical Education | 50 | 29% | 11% | 10% | 24% | 64% |
| Photography | 33 | 19% | 6% | 12% | 19% | 48% |
| Fine Art | 29 | 17% | 9% | 7% | 28% | 38% |
| Computer Science | 19 | 11% | 13% | 32% | 30% | 63% |
| Music | 17 | 10% | 5% | 6% | 33% | 59% |
| Drama | 15 | 9% | 7% | 13% | 27% | 60% |
| Polish | 8 | 5% | 1% | 88% | 84% | 88% |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 45 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 42 | — | — |
| Engineering Studies | 41 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 33 | — | — |
| Tourism | 31 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 25 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in North East Lincolnshire
Cleethorpes Academy
Academy sponsor led · 843 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.7
Havelock Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 862 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.8
Humberston Academy
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81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.6
John Whitgift Academy
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82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.1
Oasis Academy Immingham
Academy sponsor led · 568 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.7
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.