Community special school

Woodfield

Mixed · ages 5–16Coventry, West Midlands · Coventry CV4 7ABSchool website
Pupils on roll
163of 152 places
Free school meals
74.8%
Year 11 cohort 2025
19
Ofsted
Good, 21 November 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 14 pupils who finished Year 11 at Woodfield in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 36% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

21% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Woodfield is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 7.7, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Coventry and England.

Woodfield
Coventry
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureWoodfieldCoventryEngland
Pupils in the cohort144,083607,348
Any sustained destination50%90%92%
Stayed in education50%84%86%
— school sixth form0%46%34%
— sixth form college0%3%13%
— further education college36%33%37%
— other education14%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%4%3%
Employment0%2%3%
No sustained destination21%7%6%
Destination unknown29%4%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureWoodfieldCoventryEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)7.744.046.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%41%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths5%61%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%32%41%
EBacc average point score0.653.834.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort84%32%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils34.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils48.550.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%34%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Mathematics1368%88%0%22%15%
English Language1158%89%0%20%9%
Combined Science737%65%0%9%14%
Food Preparation and Nutrition316%8%21%
Art and Design211%7%24%

Other secondary schools in Coventry

Barr's Hill School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,063 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.7

Caludon Castle School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,520 pupils

81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.5

Coundon Court

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,873 pupils

81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.0

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.