Academy@Worden
Ofsted: Good
Score
C55
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Leyland, PR25 1RN
- Distance
- 0.9km away
Wellfield Academy
Yewlands Drive, Leyland, PR25 2TP
Local ranking81st of 82 secondary schools in Lancashire
Ofsted: Requires improvementUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
834
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 16 November 2021. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Wellfield Academy (URN 119723) since 30 November 2023. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 34.8 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 21.6% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 41.9% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 74
Destinations
After GCSE 2023-24
- Sustained education/employment
- 75.0%
- Continued in education
- 60.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 1.0%
- Employment
- 14.0%
- Not sustained
- 21.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 524
- Boys
- 292 (52%)
- Girls
- 270 (48%)
- Capacity
- 834 (67% full)
- SEND
- 16.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 36.8%
- EAL
- 4.6%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.2%
- SEN Support
- 13.2%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 14.8:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.4
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,187/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 10.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 33.0% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- Not applicable
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 87.6%
- White Other: 2.9%
- Mixed Other: 1.9%
- Other: 1.7%
- Black African: 1.3%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.0%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.8%
- Asian Other: 0.8%
87.6%
White British
2.9%
White Other
1.9%
Mixed Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Yewlands Drive
Leyland, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 150434
- UKPRN
- 10094100
- Establishment No.
- 4033
- Trust
- ENDEAVOUR LEARNING TRUST
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