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Sawston Village College
- Pupils on roll
- 1,198of 1,140 places
- Free school meals
- 16.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 238
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 5 May 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Sawston Village College (URN 110902, until 1 June 2011).
What the data says
Sawston Village College has no sixth form. Of the 237 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 69% moved to a sixth form college, 11% to a further education college and 3% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 69% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
GCSE results in 2025 were well above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 55.5 against 46.1 across England and 48.1 in Cambridgeshire, with 61% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Drama is unusually popular at GCSE: 22% of the year group took it, against 7% 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 Cambridgeshire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Sawston Village College | Cambridgeshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 237 | 6,392 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 95% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 89% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 24% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 69% | 32% | 13% |
| — further education college | 11% | 29% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 3% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Sawston Village College | Cambridgeshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 55.5 | 48.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 61% | 50% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 75% | 68% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 54% | 46% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 5.18 | 4.36 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 16% | 24% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 36.2 | 32.5 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 59.1 | 52.8 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 12% | 14% | 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 | 238 | 100% | 88% | 32% | 22% | 82% |
| English Language | 238 | 100% | 89% | 32% | 20% | 76% |
| English Literature | 233 | 98% | 86% | 30% | 21% | 78% |
| Combined Science | 152 | 64% | 65% | 9% | 9% | 72% |
| History | 149 | 63% | 41% | 48% | 26% | 85% |
| Physics | 83 | 35% | 23% | 64% | 46% | 100% |
| Biology | 83 | 35% | 23% | 73% | 45% | 99% |
| Chemistry | 83 | 35% | 23% | 72% | 47% | 100% |
| Spanish | 71 | 30% | 19% | 37% | 27% | 89% |
| French | 64 | 27% | 18% | 52% | 29% | 81% |
| Design and Technology | 62 | 26% | 11% | 26% | 23% | 73% |
| Geography | 61 | 26% | 41% | 34% | 25% | 80% |
| Computer Science | 55 | 23% | 13% | 36% | 30% | 73% |
| Business Studies | 54 | 23% | 18% | 17% | 20% | 63% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 54 | 23% | 8% | 50% | 21% | 94% |
| Fine Art | 53 | 22% | 9% | 34% | 28% | 72% |
| Drama | 52 | 22% | 7% | 23% | 27% | 77% |
| Photography | 40 | 17% | 6% | 35% | 19% | 90% |
| Physical Education | 26 | 11% | 11% | 27% | 24% | 96% |
| German | 25 | 11% | 5% | 80% | 33% | 96% |
| Music | 17 | 7% | 5% | 82% | 33% | 100% |
| Religious Studies | 15 | 6% | 31% | 33% | 32% | 80% |
| Dance | 7 | 3% | 1% | 29% | 27% | 100% |
| Russian | 4 | 2% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Chinese | 3 | 1% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Italian | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Sociology | 1 | 0% | 4% | — | 21% | — |
| Turkish | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Studies | 39 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 27 | — | — |
| Engineering Studies | 20 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 2 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 1 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 1 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 1 | — | — |
Where Sawston Village College is
Other secondary schools in Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire’s allocation statistics.
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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.