Abbey College, Ramsey
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,096 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.1
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The Harbour School
- Pupils on roll
- 95of 104 places
- Free school meals
- 74.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 12
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 5 December 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: The Harbour School (URN 134193, until 31 October 2020).
What the data says
The Harbour School has no sixth form. Of the 7 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 43% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 6.1 against 46.1 across England and 48.1 in Cambridgeshire, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 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 Cambridgeshire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | The Harbour School | Cambridgeshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 7 | 6,392 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 86% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 86% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 24% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 32% | 13% |
| — further education college | 43% | 29% | 37% |
| — other education | 43% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 14% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | The Harbour School | Cambridgeshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 6.1 | 48.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 50% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 68% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 46% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.62 | 4.36 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 75% | 24% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 32.5 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 52.8 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 8% | 14% | 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 | 8 | 67% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 0% |
| Mathematics | 8 | 67% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 0% |
| Combined Science | 8 | 67% | 65% | 0% | 9% | 0% |
Other secondary schools in Cambridgeshire
Bassingbourn Village College
Academy converter · 652 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.5
Bottisham Village College
Academy converter · 1,396 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.1
Cambourne Village College
Free schools · sixth form · 1,626 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.7
Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology
University technical college · sixth form · 455 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 56.8
Chesterton Community College
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,126 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 68.0
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.