Alec Hunter Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,058 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.7
Academy sponsor led
Mark Hall Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 867of 1,080 places
- Free school meals
- 27.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 138
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 4 March 2025Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Mark Hall Academy (URN 139271, until 1 January 2021).
What the data says
Mark Hall Academy has no sixth form. Of the 164 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 1% moved to a sixth form college, 71% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 30% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 38.9 against 46.1 across England and 45.1 in Essex, with 30% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: 1% took an apprenticeship and 5% 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 Essex and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Mark Hall Academy | Essex | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 164 | 15,970 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 92% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 86% | 86% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 14% | 37% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 1% | 9% | 13% |
| — further education college | 71% | 38% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 5% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Mark Hall Academy | Essex | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 38.9 | 45.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 30% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 54% | 64% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 14% | 39% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.10 | 3.97 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 34% | 22% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 32.6 | 31.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 42.1 | 48.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 22% | 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.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 137 | 99% | 89% | 8% | 20% | 57% |
| Mathematics | 137 | 99% | 88% | 8% | 22% | 60% |
| English Literature | 136 | 99% | 86% | 5% | 21% | 59% |
| Combined Science | 116 | 84% | 65% | 3% | 9% | 42% |
| Religious Studies | 69 | 50% | 31% | 23% | 32% | 61% |
| History | 62 | 45% | 41% | 18% | 26% | 61% |
| Design and Technology | 57 | 41% | 11% | 0% | 23% | 26% |
| Physical Education | 50 | 36% | 11% | 4% | 24% | 28% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 44 | 32% | 8% | 5% | 21% | 34% |
| Photography | 41 | 30% | 6% | 24% | 19% | 66% |
| Computer Science | 36 | 26% | 13% | 6% | 30% | 36% |
| Statistics | 29 | 21% | 5% | 17% | 20% | 48% |
| Fine Art | 28 | 20% | 9% | 4% | 28% | 39% |
| Music | 23 | 17% | 5% | 43% | 33% | 74% |
| Spanish | 22 | 16% | 19% | 27% | 27% | 45% |
| Biology | 20 | 14% | 23% | 10% | 45% | 80% |
| Chemistry | 20 | 14% | 23% | 15% | 47% | 70% |
| Physics | 20 | 14% | 23% | 10% | 46% | 70% |
| Drama | 16 | 12% | 7% | 13% | 27% | 63% |
| Polish | 4 | 3% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Turkish | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
| Russian | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Portuguese | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Italian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| French | 1 | 1% | 18% | — | 29% | — |
| Persian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 77% | — |
Other secondary schools in Essex
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Academy converter · sixth form · 1,533 pupils
96% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.6
Beauchamps High School
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83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.1
Becket Keys Church of England Free School
Free schools · sixth form · 1,152 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 56.0
Bmat Stem Academy
University technical college · sixth form · 240 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 28.1
Brentwood County High School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,097 pupils
78% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2
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.