Abbey College, Ramsey
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,096 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.1
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St Bede's Inter-Church School
- Pupils on roll
- 943of 903 places
- Free school meals
- 16.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 180
- Ofsted
- Outstanding, 4 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: St Bede's Inter-Church School (URN 110887, until 1 March 2012).
What the data says
St Bede's Inter-Church School has no sixth form. Of the 181 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 80% moved to a sixth form college, 6% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 80% 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 61.6 against 46.1 across England and 48.1 in Cambridgeshire, with 74% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
German is unusually popular at GCSE: 39% of the year group took it, against 5% 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 | This school | Cambridgeshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 181 | 6,392 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 97% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 96% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 24% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 80% | 32% | 13% |
| — further education college | 6% | 29% | 37% |
| — other education | 3% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 2% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Cambridgeshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 61.6 | 48.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 74% | 50% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 86% | 68% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 71% | 46% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 5.86 | 4.36 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 18% | 24% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 41.4 | 32.5 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 65.9 | 52.8 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 27% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 180 | 100% | 89% | 44% | 20% | 88% |
| Mathematics | 179 | 99% | 88% | 42% | 22% | 88% |
| English Literature | 175 | 97% | 86% | 42% | 21% | 89% |
| Religious Studies | 173 | 96% | 31% | 49% | 32% | 79% |
| History | 141 | 78% | 41% | 52% | 26% | 84% |
| Combined Science | 113 | 63% | 65% | 19% | 9% | 79% |
| German | 70 | 39% | 5% | 47% | 33% | 86% |
| Biology | 64 | 36% | 23% | 80% | 45% | 98% |
| Business Studies | 64 | 36% | 18% | 23% | 20% | 81% |
| Physics | 64 | 36% | 23% | 84% | 46% | 98% |
| Chemistry | 64 | 36% | 23% | 88% | 47% | 98% |
| French | 59 | 33% | 18% | 71% | 29% | 97% |
| Media Studies | 41 | 23% | 4% | 29% | 20% | 83% |
| Geography | 30 | 17% | 41% | 70% | 25% | 100% |
| Fine Art | 27 | 15% | 9% | 74% | 28% | 100% |
| Physical Education | 24 | 13% | 11% | 46% | 24% | 92% |
| Computer Science | 24 | 13% | 13% | 29% | 30% | 75% |
| Drama | 20 | 11% | 7% | 65% | 27% | 95% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 18 | 10% | 8% | 11% | 21% | 50% |
| Music | 14 | 8% | 5% | 79% | 33% | 100% |
| Polish | 12 | 7% | 1% | 100% | 84% | 100% |
| Design and Technology | 11 | 6% | 11% | 45% | 23% | 73% |
| Textiles | 10 | 6% | 2% | 20% | 27% | 90% |
| Latin | 10 | 6% | 1% | 40% | 74% | 70% |
| Italian | 8 | 4% | 0% | 100% | 53% | 100% |
| Portuguese | 5 | 3% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Classical Greek | 5 | 3% | 0% | — | 92% | — |
| Spanish | 3 | 2% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
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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.