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Greenfield Academy

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formCounty Durham, North East · Newton Aycliffe DL5 7LFTrust: Advance Learning PartnershipSchool website
Pupils on roll
566of 950 places
Free school meals
62.0%
Year 11 cohort 2025
112
Ofsted
Requires improvement, 17 September 2019Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Greenfield Community College, A Specialist Arts and Science School (URN 114305, until 1 September 2023).

What the data says

Greenfield Academy has no sixth form. Of the 155 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 21% moved to a sixth form college, 60% to a further education college and 4% started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 35.7 against 46.1 across England and 44.1 in County Durham, with 30% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 21% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils across England.

Languages are a small part of the curriculum here: entries in French add up to 8% of the year group, and 9% of pupils entered the full EBacc set of subjects (England 41%).

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 County Durham and England.

Greenfield Academy
County Durham
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureGreenfield AcademyCounty DurhamEngland
Pupils in the cohort1555,399607,348
Any sustained destination88%89%92%
Stayed in education81%81%86%
— school sixth form1%30%34%
— sixth form college21%4%13%
— further education college60%46%37%
— other education0%1%2%
Apprenticeship4%5%3%
Employment3%3%3%
No sustained destination9%8%6%
Destination unknown3%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureGreenfield AcademyCounty DurhamEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)35.744.146.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths30%42%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths47%61%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects9%33%41%
EBacc average point score2.953.754.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort50%32%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils27.335.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils44.148.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language10%4%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
Mathematics10997%88%6%22%55%
English Language10896%89%6%20%59%
English Literature10493%86%9%21%56%
Combined Science10392%65%4%9%40%
History6154%41%7%26%36%
Geography4036%41%18%25%50%
Art and Design2421%7%21%24%83%
Business Studies2220%18%14%20%45%
Drama1614%7%0%27%50%
Food Preparation and Nutrition1513%8%27%21%87%
French98%18%44%29%89%
Photography44%6%19%
Religious Studies11%31%32%
Chinese11%1%75%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Sports Studies41
Computer Appreciation / Introduction22
Music performance: Group19
Childcare Skills15

Other secondary schools in County Durham

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86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.2

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78% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.4

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67% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.4

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.