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Free schools · 1,221 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 35.6
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St George's School A Church of England Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 1,038of 1,050 places
- Free school meals
- 33.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 190
- Ofsted
- Improved significantly, 26 February 2025Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: St George's School A Church of England Business & Enterprise College (URN 133638, until 1 April 2014).
What the data says
St George's School A Church of England Academy has no sixth form. Of the 190 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 44% moved to a sixth form college, 35% to a further education college and 4% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 44% 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 55.5 against 46.1 across England and 37.0 in Blackpool, with 71% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Fine Art is unusually popular at GCSE: 24% of the year group took it, against 9% 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 Blackpool and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Blackpool | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 190 | 1,331 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 91% | 84% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 82% | 77% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 2% | 6% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 44% | 24% | 13% |
| — further education college | 35% | 44% | 37% |
| — other education | 2% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 5% | 5% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 11% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 5% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Blackpool | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 55.5 | 37.0 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 71% | 30% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 86% | 51% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 28% | 18% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.81 | 3.16 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 33% | 48% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 50.0 | 29.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 58.2 | 43.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 5% | 11% | 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 Literature | 190 | 100% | 86% | 29% | 21% | 85% |
| Mathematics | 190 | 100% | 88% | 31% | 22% | 88% |
| English Language | 190 | 100% | 89% | 27% | 20% | 89% |
| Combined Science | 158 | 83% | 65% | 13% | 9% | 74% |
| Religious Studies | 125 | 66% | 31% | 36% | 32% | 85% |
| Geography | 112 | 59% | 41% | 23% | 25% | 61% |
| History | 100 | 53% | 41% | 44% | 26% | 81% |
| Fine Art | 46 | 24% | 9% | 20% | 28% | 98% |
| Spanish | 42 | 22% | 19% | 36% | 27% | 88% |
| Chemistry | 32 | 17% | 23% | 75% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 32 | 17% | 23% | 78% | 46% | 100% |
| Biology | 32 | 17% | 23% | 78% | 45% | 100% |
| Statistics | 26 | 14% | 5% | 35% | 20% | 88% |
| French | 12 | 6% | 18% | 50% | 29% | 92% |
| Drama | 7 | 4% | 7% | 57% | 27% | 100% |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Studies | 47 | — | — |
| Building / Construction Operations (General / Combined) | 39 | — | — |
| Small Business Management | 39 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 36 | — | — |
| Tourism | 35 | — | — |
| Dance: General | 9 | — | — |
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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.