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Bridgnorth Endowed School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formShropshire, West Midlands · Bridgnorth WV16 4ERTrust: The 3-18 Education TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
601of 600 places
Free school meals
13.7%
Year 11 cohort 2025
120
Ofsted
Good, 13 September 2023Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Bridgnorth Endowed School (URN 123586, until 1 January 2013).

What the data says

Bridgnorth Endowed School has no sixth form. Of the 96 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 51% moved to a sixth form college, 21% to a further education college and 7% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 51% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 36% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 44.4 against 46.1 across England and 42.5 in Shropshire, with 39% 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 Shropshire and England.

Bridgnorth Endowed School
Shropshire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureBridgnorth Endowed SchoolShropshireEngland
Pupils in the cohort962,982607,348
Any sustained destination94%91%92%
Stayed in education80%81%86%
— school sixth form8%15%34%
— sixth form college51%45%13%
— further education college21%19%37%
— other education0%2%2%
Apprenticeship7%5%3%
Employment6%5%3%
No sustained destination5%5%6%
Destination unknown1%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureBridgnorth Endowed SchoolShropshireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)44.442.546.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths39%37%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths66%59%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects48%33%41%
EBacc average point score3.943.714.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort13%21%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils36.931.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils45.545.550.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language1%5%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language120100%89%14%20%70%
Mathematics120100%88%13%22%76%
English Literature120100%86%8%21%63%
History7563%41%20%26%65%
Combined Science6857%65%6%9%59%
Physics5243%23%21%46%67%
Chemistry5243%23%21%47%63%
Biology5243%23%21%45%63%
Spanish4336%19%5%27%42%
Food Preparation and Nutrition4336%8%12%21%74%
Fine Art4235%9%31%28%60%
Physical Education4134%11%5%24%27%
Geography3025%41%20%25%63%
Religious Studies2823%31%7%32%32%
Design and Technology2521%11%12%23%32%
Film Studies2319%1%13%20%52%
French2218%18%27%29%59%
Music1815%5%17%33%33%
Drama1714%7%6%27%65%
Computer Science76%13%0%30%14%

Other secondary schools in Shropshire

Belvidere School

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83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.8

Idsall School

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86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.0

Lakelands Academy

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76% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.1

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.