Cabot Learning Federation
13 state secondaries · 2024/25 Department for Education figures
Cabot Learning Federation runs 13 state secondaries in England, spread across 5 council areas. 9 of them have a sixth form.
8 of them joined as sponsored academies, taken on after being judged to be failing; the 5 others chose to convert and were generally rated Good or better already. Those two groups start from different places.
29.8% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, about the national 28.4%.
On passing English and maths at grade 5 its schools run from 17.7% to 60%. Those are raw results and reflect who each school takes in as much as anything the trust does, so they are worth reading school by school rather than as a score for the trust.
Its schools
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| Bristol Brunel Academy Bristol · Good. · sponsored · no spare places | Bristol, City of | 41% | 43.6 | 31% | |
| Bristol Metropolitan Academy Bristol · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade. · sponsored · no spare places | Bristol, City of | 40% | 46.9 | 29% | |
| Broadoak Academy Weston-Super-Mare · Good. | North Somerset | 32% | 38.7 | 27% | |
| Digitech Studio School Bristol · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade. · no spare places | South Gloucestershire | 18% | 31.2 | 44% | |
| Hanham Woods Academy Bristol · Good. · sponsored | South Gloucestershire | 39% | 44.1 | 26% | |
| Hans Price Academy Weston-super-Mare · Good. · sponsored | North Somerset | 43% | 47.6 | 23% | |
| John Cabot Academy Bristol · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade. · sponsored | South Gloucestershire | 60% | 52.1 | 24% | |
| King's Oak Academy Bristol · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade. · sponsored | South Gloucestershire | 35% | 42 | 23% | |
| Kingsmead Academy Taunton · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade. | Somerset | 39% | 43.8 | 29% | |
| Monkton Wood Academy Taunton · Inadequate. · sponsored | Somerset | 35% | 41.4 | 28% | |
| Tewkesbury Academy Tewkesbury · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade. | Gloucestershire | 39% | 43.1 | 26% | |
| The City Academy Bristol Bristol · Good. · sponsored | Bristol, City of | 30% | 38.5 | 32% | |
| Winterstoke Hundred Academy Weston-Super-Mare · Good. | North Somerset | 34% | 40.1 | 32% |
These are raw results. Progress 8, the measure that allows for who a school took in, is not published for 2024/25, so there is no figure here that separates what a trust does from who its schools take. Two trusts with the same numbers can be doing very different jobs.
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What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.