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Peak Academy

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formGloucestershire, South West · Dursley GL11 5HDTrust: Reach South Academy TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
65of 100 places
Free school meals
75.4%
Year 11 cohort 2025
13
Ofsted
Inspected, 7 May 2025Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Peak Academy (URN 138429, until 31 July 2022).

What the data says

Peak Academy has no sixth form. Of the 12 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 75% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 9.2 against 46.1 across England and 50.3 in Gloucestershire, 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 8% 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 Gloucestershire and England.

Peak Academy
Gloucestershire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasurePeak AcademyGloucestershireEngland
Pupils in the cohort126,782607,348
Any sustained destination83%93%92%
Stayed in education75%85%86%
— school sixth form0%46%34%
— sixth form college0%11%13%
— further education college75%26%37%
— other education0%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%4%3%
Employment8%4%3%
No sustained destination0%5%6%
Destination unknown17%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasurePeak AcademyGloucestershireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)9.250.346.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%53%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%71%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%31%41%
EBacc average point score0.944.404.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort77%19%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils34.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils54.050.4
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
Mathematics13100%88%0%22%23%
English Language1185%89%0%20%0%
Combined Science1077%65%0%9%20%
Art and Design18%7%24%

Other secondary schools in Gloucestershire

Archway School

Community school · sixth form · 1,053 pupils

84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.3

Balcarras School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,427 pupils

92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 58.5

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.