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Church Lawton School

Mixed · ages 4–19 · with sixth formCheshire East, North West · Stoke-on-Trent ST7 3ELTrust: Liberty Academy Trust Ltd.School website
Pupils on roll
86of 84 places
Free school meals
30.4%
Year 11 cohort 2025
11
Ofsted
Good, 16 November 2022Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 10 pupils who finished Year 11 at Church Lawton School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Church Lawton School’s own sixth form (Cheshire East average 40%), 50% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 39.4 against 46.1 across England and 47.1 in Cheshire East, with 46% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

10% 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 none 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 Cheshire East and England.

Church Lawton School
Cheshire East
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureChurch Lawton SchoolCheshire EastEngland
Pupils in the cohort104,099607,348
Any sustained destination90%94%92%
Stayed in education90%88%86%
— school sixth form0%40%34%
— sixth form college0%7%13%
— further education college50%40%37%
— other education40%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%3%3%
Employment0%3%3%
No sustained destination10%4%6%
Destination unknown0%2%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

MeasureChurch Lawton SchoolCheshire EastEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)39.447.146.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths46%45%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths64%68%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects9%39%41%
EBacc average point score3.824.104.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort18%19%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils32.334.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils50.650.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%9%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
Mathematics11100%88%9%22%64%
English Language11100%89%18%20%91%
English Literature11100%86%18%21%73%
Combined Science11100%65%9%9%73%
Computer Science436%13%30%
History436%41%26%
German327%5%33%
Geography19%41%25%

Other secondary schools in Cheshire East

Alsager School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,528 pupils

88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.9

Brine Leas School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,417 pupils

89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.7

Congleton High School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,174 pupils

83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.8

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.