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9.5% of pupils eligible for free school meals.
201 pupils at the end of Year 11.
121 A-level students; average grade C+, best three A levels averaging C+. Progress: below average (value added -0.17).
For Year 7 in September 2026, 241 families put it first for 201 places (1.2 first choices per place, oversubscribed). 82% of the families who put it first got a place.
| Entry | Places | First choices | Per place | First choices offered a place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 7, 2024 | 202 | 218 | 1.1 | 91% |
| Year 7, 2025 | 193 | 188 | 1.0 | 100% |
| Year 7, 2026 | 201 | 241 | 1.2 | 82% |
Sports hall (4 courts), artificial hockey pitch, 2 football pitches, tennis courts, gym, dance or fitness studio.
Some of these are open to the public (pay and play, clubs or community use) outside school hours. Schools nearby with similar facilities
Income £9.1m, spending £9.1m (September 2024 to August 2025, 1,206 pupils).
Run by Whitburn Church of England Academy, a single-academy trust. The trust holds reserves of −£28k, -0.3% of its income. Its accounts at Companies House.
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| Subject | Entries | Grades 8–9 | England 8–9 | Grades 7+ | Grades 4+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 199 | 9% | 13% | 14.1% | 83.9% |
| English Language | 199 | 6% | 9.2% | 15.6% | 80.4% |
| English Literature | 199 | 3% | 9.9% | 9.5% | 82.9% |
| Religious Studies | 196 | 9.2% | 19% | 19.9% | 81.1% |
| Geography | 98 | 15.3% | 13.6% | 29.6% | 74.5% |
| Business | 79 | 13.9% | 10.9% | 19% | 86.1% |
| History | 68 | 17.6% | 15.2% | 29.4% | 83.8% |
| Spanish | 53 | 13.2% | 15.3% | 26.4% | 81.1% |
| Physics | 52 | 28.8% | 29.4% | 51.9% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 52 | 34.6% | 31.4% | 50% | 100% |
| Biology | 52 | 30.8% | 28.6% | 53.8% | 100% |
| Art and Design | 48 | 31.3% | 13.2% | 50% | 87.5% |
| Food Preparation & Nutrition | 46 | 8.7% | 11.5% | 43.5% | 82.6% |
| Computer Science | 40 | 2.5% | 19.9% | 15% | 60% |
| Physical Education | 30 | 30% | 12.8% | 43.3% | 83.3% |
| Other Modern Languages | 27 | 37% | 31.4% | 63% | 96.3% |
| Social Studies | 21 | 23.8% | 10.8% | 23.8% | 95.2% |
| Music | 11 | 0% | 20.5% | 9.1% | 72.7% |
| Subject | Entries | A*–A | England A*–A | A* | A*–B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 43 | 11.6% | 19.8% | 4.7% | 34.9% |
| Mathematics | 32 | 40.6% | 42.8% | 18.8% | 46.9% |
| Business Studies | 32 | 9.4% | 16.8% | 3.1% | 53.1% |
| Biology | 26 | 23.1% | 29% | 19.2% | 53.8% |
| Chemistry | 23 | 43.5% | 33.2% | 13% | 52.2% |
| Sociology | 18 | 38.9% | 19.3% | 11.1% | 83.3% |
| Computer Science | 17 | 17.6% | 23.5% | 5.9% | 29.4% |
| Physical Education / Sports Studies | 17 | 5.9% | 16.2% | 0% | 23.5% |
| Economics | 17 | 17.6% | 30.8% | 5.9% | 35.3% |
| History | 16 | 0% | 25.5% | 0% | 43.8% |
| Geography | 14 | 0% | 24.2% | 0% | 28.6% |
| Religious Studies | 13 | 0% | 23.8% | 0% | 76.9% |
| English Literature | 12 | 8.3% | 25.2% | 8.3% | 16.7% |
| Physics | 8 | 0% | 32.6% | 0% | 12.5% |
| English Language | 7 | 14.3% | 12.7% | 0% | 42.9% |
| Mathematics (Further) | 6 | 50% | 53.1% | 33.3% | 100% |
| Fine Art | 5 | 0% | 35.5% | 0% | 0% |
| Chinese | 5 | 0% | 37.9% | 0% | 0% |