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Burnage Academy for Boys
- Pupils on roll
- 1,021of 1,086 places
- Free school meals
- 53.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 175
- Ofsted
- School remains Outstanding, 31 January 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Burnage Media Arts College (URN 105557, until 1 April 2014).
What the data says
Burnage Academy for Boys has no sixth form. Of the 180 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 36% moved to a sixth form college, 29% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 36% of leavers went to one, roughly twice the England rate of 13%.
Design and Technology is unusually popular at GCSE: 23% of the year group took it, against 11% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 46.6 against 46.1 across England and 44.8 in Manchester, with 46% 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 Manchester and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Burnage Academy for Boys | Manchester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 180 | 6,414 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 94% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 93% | 86% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 28% | 15% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 36% | 30% | 13% |
| — further education college | 29% | 39% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 3% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Burnage Academy for Boys | Manchester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 46.6 | 44.8 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 46% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 66% | 61% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 14% | 47% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.99 | 4.01 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 47% | 52% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 43.0 | 39.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 49.7 | 50.6 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 65% | 44% | 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 | 175 | 100% | 89% | 15% | 20% | 62% |
| Mathematics | 173 | 99% | 88% | 27% | 22% | 71% |
| English Literature | 164 | 94% | 86% | 23% | 21% | 76% |
| Combined Science | 116 | 66% | 65% | 15% | 9% | 52% |
| Biology | 47 | 27% | 23% | 40% | 45% | 94% |
| Business Studies | 46 | 26% | 18% | 24% | 20% | 72% |
| Geography | 45 | 26% | 41% | 40% | 25% | 73% |
| History | 44 | 25% | 41% | 18% | 26% | 61% |
| Chemistry | 44 | 25% | 23% | 50% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 44 | 25% | 23% | 48% | 46% | 98% |
| Design and Technology | 41 | 23% | 11% | 5% | 23% | 76% |
| Computer Science | 41 | 23% | 13% | 20% | 30% | 59% |
| Urdu | 32 | 18% | 1% | 63% | 42% | 91% |
| Drama | 31 | 18% | 7% | 3% | 27% | 48% |
| French | 29 | 17% | 18% | 38% | 29% | 79% |
| Religious Studies | 24 | 14% | 31% | 21% | 32% | 75% |
| Art and Design | 14 | 8% | 7% | 14% | 24% | 86% |
| Arabic | 12 | 7% | 1% | 75% | 47% | 100% |
| Spanish | 7 | 4% | 19% | 86% | 27% | 100% |
| Italian | 5 | 3% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| German | 3 | 2% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
| Chinese | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Citizenship Studies | 2 | 1% | 3% | — | 19% | — |
| Statistics | 2 | 1% | 5% | — | 20% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Turkish | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
| Persian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 77% | — |
| Modern Greek | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 33% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering Studies | 51 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 21 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 18 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 11 | — | — |
| Additional Mathematics FSMQ | 8 | — | — |
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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.