Blackpool Aspire Academy
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
F30
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Blackpool, FY3 7LS
- Distance
- 1.4km away
Baines School
Highcross Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, FY6 8BE
Local ranking52nd of 80 secondary schools in Lancashire
Ofsted: Expected
Secondary
Phase
890
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum & teaching
- Expected standard
- Attendance & behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership & governance
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 45.8 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 41.1% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 65.5% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 19.6% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 3.9 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 168
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 88.0%
- Continued in education
- 76.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 5.0%
- Employment
- 6.0%
- Not sustained
- 8.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 747
- Boys
- 360 (48%)
- Girls
- 387 (52%)
- Capacity
- 890 (84% full)
- SEND
- 6.2%
- FSM Eligible
- 31.6%
- EAL
- 3.1%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.2%
- SEN Support
- 5.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 12.7:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,562/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 8.5% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 28.6% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 88.3%
- White Other: 3.8%
- Mixed White & Black African: 2.0%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.1%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.8%
- Mixed Other: 0.8%
- Other: 0.8%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 0.7%
88.3%
White British
3.8%
White Other
2.0%
Mixed White & Black African
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Highcross Road
Poulton-le-Fylde, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 119813
- UKPRN
- 10000504
- Establishment No.
- 5404
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