Beechen Cliff School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,232 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.0
Academy special sponsor led
North Star 180°
- Pupils on roll
- 105of 104 places
- Free school meals
- 71.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 9
- Ofsted
- Good, 23 April 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: The Link School (URN 132947, until 7 March 2014).
What the data says
North Star 180° has no sixth form. Of the 9 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 67% to a further education college and 11% started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 7.6 against 46.1 across England and 47.9 in Bath and North East Somerset, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 11% of leavers started one, roughly three times the England figure of 3%.
11% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
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 Bath and North East Somerset and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | North Star 180° | Bath and North East Somerset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 9 | 2,287 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 89% | 95% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 78% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 48% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 9% | 13% |
| — further education college | 67% | 27% | 37% |
| — other education | 11% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 11% | 5% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 11% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | North Star 180° | Bath and North East Somerset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 7.6 | 47.9 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 49% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 68% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 44% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.26 | 4.29 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 56% | 20% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 32.5 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 51.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 7% | 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 | 8 | 89% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 0% |
| Biology | 6 | 67% | 23% | 0% | 45% | 0% |
| English Language | 6 | 67% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 0% |
| Art and Design | 4 | 44% | 7% | — | 24% | — |
| Photography | 3 | 33% | 6% | — | 19% | — |
| Physical Education | 3 | 33% | 11% | — | 24% | — |
| History | 1 | 11% | 41% | — | 26% | — |
Other secondary schools in Bath and North East Somerset
Chew Valley School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,180 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.8
Hayesfield Girls School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,497 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.0
IKB Academy
Studio schools · sixth form · 136 pupils
57% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.3
Lift Broadlands
Academy sponsor led · 314 pupils
75% stayed in education · Attainment 8 31.8
Norton Hill Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,757 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.2
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.