Aureus School
Academy sponsor led · 531 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 33.7
Academy special sponsor led
Orion Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 74of 94 places
- Free school meals
- 65.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 13
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 4 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Northfield School (URN 123346, until 31 January 2020).
What the data says
Of the 6 pupils who finished Year 11 at Orion Academy in 2023, 0% stayed on in Orion Academy’s own sixth form (Oxfordshire average 45%), 50% went to a further education college and 17% started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 4.3 against 46.1 across England and 46.4 in Oxfordshire, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 17% of leavers started one, roughly three times the England figure of 3%.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.
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 Oxfordshire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Orion Academy | Oxfordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 6 | 6,906 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 67% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 50% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 45% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 4% | 13% |
| — further education college | 50% | 34% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 17% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 33% | 3% | 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
| Measure | Orion Academy | Oxfordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 4.3 | 46.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 48% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 66% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 37% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.24 | 4.14 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 77% | 20% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 31.3 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 50.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 16% | 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 | 6 | 46% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 33% |
| English Language | 4 | 31% | 89% | — | 20% | — |
| Fine Art | 2 | 15% | 9% | — | 28% | — |
Other secondary schools in Oxfordshire
Bartholomew School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,390 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.0
Blessed George Napier Catholic School and Sixth Form
Academy converter · sixth form · 943 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.5
Burford School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,452 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.4
Carterton Community College
Community school · sixth form · 774 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 33.8
Cheney School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,706 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.0
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.