Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,655 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.0
Other independent special school
Active Support Education Centre
- Pupils on roll
- 68of 100 places
- Free school meals
- —
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 30
- Ofsted
- Not covered by Ofsted school inspections
What the data says
The Department for Education has not published where Active Support Education Centre’s Year 11 leavers went next, so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.
Active Support Education Centre is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 1.6, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.
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 Luton and England.
The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Luton | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 1.6 | 45.0 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 42% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 49% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.14 | 4.05 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | — | 32% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 38.2 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 48.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | — | 49% | 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 | 6 | 20% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 17% |
| Mathematics | 6 | 20% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 0% |
| Combined Science | 4 | 13% | 65% | — | 9% | — |
Where Active Support Education Centre is
Other secondary schools in Luton are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Luton’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Luton
Challney High School for Boys
Academy converter · 1,197 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.7
Challney High School for Girls
Academy converter · 1,062 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.1
Chiltern Academy
Free schools · 1,203 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.5
Denbigh High School
Academy converter · 1,130 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.6
Icknield High School
Academy converter · 1,452 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.4
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.