Brompton Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,399 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.1
Free schools special
INSPIRE Free Special School
- Pupils on roll
- 98of 100 places
- Free school meals
- 65.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 17
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 14 December 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
INSPIRE Free Special School has no sixth form. Of the 11 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 9% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 2.9 against 46.1 across England and 46.1 in Medway, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
18% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and 9% went into work, against 3% and 3% 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 Medway and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | INSPIRE Free Special School | Medway | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 11 | 3,382 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 55% | 91% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 45% | 86% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 54% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | — | 13% |
| — further education college | 9% | 28% | 37% |
| — other education | 36% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 9% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 18% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 27% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | INSPIRE Free Special School | Medway | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 2.9 | 46.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 44% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 64% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 52% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.17 | 4.16 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 71% | 25% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 33.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 50.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 15% | 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 | 11 | 65% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 9% |
| English Language | 9 | 53% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 0% |
Other secondary schools in Medway
Chatham Grammar
Academy converter · sixth form · 948 pupils
96% stayed in education · Attainment 8 61.8
Fort Pitt Grammar School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,009 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 65.9
Holcombe Grammar School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,060 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 62.4
Leigh Academy Hundred of Hoo
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,829 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2
Leigh Academy Strood
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,311 pupils
79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.2
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.