Beechen Cliff School

Type Secondary
Age Range 11-18
Religion Unknown
Address Kipling Avenue
Bath
Somerset
BA2 4RE
Phone 01225480466
Reference Number 146972

Description

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Beechen Cliff School, located at Kipling Avenue in Bath, BA2 4RE, is an academy converter that provides education for students aged 11 to 18. It is recognized as an outstanding institution by Ofsted, established within the Bath and North East Somerset local authority area. The school serves a portion of the Brocklands, Lansdown, Widcombe, and Weston areas and is part of the Greater Bath Consortium (GBC) area, which provides transportation to the nearest appropriate school (excluding St. Gregory's Catholic College) for eligible pupils. The school campus is included among the educational institutions within the GBC area that admit students at Year 7.

General Makeup

Number of pupils 1284
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 89.8%
Girls: 10.2%

Year Groups

Year Number of pupils
7 165
8 171
9 169
10 175
11 181
12 196
13 227

Ofsted Rating Good
Last Inspection Date 2023-11-09
Date Description Report
2023-09-21 School inspection: School inspection:

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education
Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
55.9 Upgrade Upgrade

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 66% Upgrade Upgrade
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 79% Upgrade Upgrade

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
0.49 Upgrade Upgrade

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

GCSE Results

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

2023 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference Upgrade Upgrade
Second Preference 129 25
Third Preference 53 3
From another Local Authority 41 16

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Students getting 5 or more GCSE's at grade 9-4 (A-C)

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