Arrow Vale High School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 843 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.8
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Nunnery Wood High School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,488of 1,500 places
- Free school meals
- 19.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 289
- Ofsted
- Good, 9 March 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Nunnery Wood High School (URN 116979, until 1 August 2011).
What the data says
Nunnery Wood High School has no sixth form. Of the 287 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 59% moved to a sixth form college, 24% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 59% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 24% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 49.7 against 46.1 across England and 44.2 in Worcestershire, with 49% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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 Worcestershire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Nunnery Wood High School | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 287 | 6,012 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 91% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 86% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 1% | 31% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 59% | 17% | 13% |
| — further education college | 24% | 36% | 37% |
| — other education | 2% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 4% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Nunnery Wood High School | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 49.7 | 44.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 49% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 72% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 30% | 41% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.41 | 3.92 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 19% | 22% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 37.4 | 30.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 52.7 | 48.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 23% | 10% | 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 | 284 | 98% | 88% | 24% | 22% | 76% |
| English Language | 284 | 98% | 89% | 23% | 20% | 76% |
| English Literature | 279 | 97% | 86% | 21% | 21% | 79% |
| Religious Studies | 254 | 88% | 31% | 19% | 32% | 70% |
| Combined Science | 229 | 79% | 65% | 15% | 9% | 72% |
| History | 156 | 54% | 41% | 22% | 26% | 65% |
| Geography | 151 | 52% | 41% | 36% | 25% | 74% |
| Art and Design | 70 | 24% | 7% | 14% | 24% | 96% |
| Photography | 69 | 24% | 6% | 16% | 19% | 91% |
| Physics | 50 | 17% | 23% | 70% | 46% | 94% |
| Business Studies | 50 | 17% | 18% | 12% | 20% | 52% |
| Computer Science | 48 | 17% | 13% | 44% | 30% | 83% |
| Biology | 48 | 17% | 23% | 63% | 45% | 98% |
| Chemistry | 47 | 16% | 23% | 64% | 47% | 98% |
| French | 42 | 15% | 18% | 40% | 29% | 90% |
| Physical Education | 40 | 14% | 11% | 8% | 24% | 68% |
| Economics | 29 | 10% | 1% | 10% | 34% | 83% |
| German | 26 | 9% | 5% | 42% | 33% | 92% |
| Media Studies | 25 | 9% | 4% | 0% | 20% | 64% |
| Drama | 23 | 8% | 7% | 17% | 27% | 70% |
| Design and Technology | 20 | 7% | 11% | 25% | 23% | 80% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 14 | 5% | 8% | 29% | 21% | 100% |
| Spanish | 11 | 4% | 19% | 64% | 27% | 100% |
| Music | 6 | 2% | 5% | 83% | 33% | 83% |
| Dance | 6 | 2% | 1% | 83% | 27% | 100% |
| Polish | 5 | 2% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Russian | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Italian | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 49 | — | — |
| Childcare Skills | 20 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 19 | — | — |
| Politics | 7 | — | — |
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Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form Centre
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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.