Arrow Vale High School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 843 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.8
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The Chantry School
- Pupils on roll
- 881of 875 places
- Free school meals
- 13.9%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 179
- Ofsted
- Good, 13 March 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Martley, the Chantry High School (URN 116980, until 1 July 2011).
What the data says
The Chantry School has no sixth form. Of the 177 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 46% moved to a sixth form college, 24% to a further education college and 8% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 46% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 33% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 8% of leavers started one, roughly twice the England figure of 3%.
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 Worcestershire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | The Chantry School | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 177 | 6,012 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 93% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 81% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 6% | 31% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 46% | 17% | 13% |
| — further education college | 24% | 36% | 37% |
| — other education | 5% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 8% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | The Chantry School | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 49.4 | 44.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 44% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 72% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 28% | 41% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.27 | 3.92 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 16% | 22% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 33.3 | 30.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 52.5 | 48.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 2% | 10% | 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.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 177 | 99% | 88% | 18% | 22% | 79% |
| English Literature | 176 | 98% | 86% | 20% | 21% | 78% |
| English Language | 176 | 98% | 89% | 23% | 20% | 76% |
| Combined Science | 145 | 81% | 65% | 8% | 9% | 66% |
| History | 113 | 63% | 41% | 29% | 26% | 68% |
| Business Studies | 80 | 45% | 18% | 9% | 20% | 59% |
| Geography | 61 | 34% | 41% | 26% | 25% | 75% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 59 | 33% | 8% | 22% | 21% | 76% |
| Physical Education | 48 | 27% | 11% | 17% | 24% | 77% |
| Religious Studies | 43 | 24% | 31% | 30% | 32% | 84% |
| Graphic Communication | 36 | 20% | 1% | 22% | 23% | 86% |
| Art and Design | 34 | 19% | 7% | 26% | 24% | 85% |
| German | 31 | 17% | 5% | 35% | 33% | 74% |
| Physics | 30 | 17% | 23% | 50% | 46% | 90% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 17% | 23% | 57% | 47% | 83% |
| French | 30 | 17% | 18% | 37% | 29% | 73% |
| Biology | 30 | 17% | 23% | 57% | 45% | 97% |
| Drama | 18 | 10% | 7% | 44% | 27% | 78% |
| Computer Science | 17 | 9% | 13% | 12% | 30% | 47% |
| Music | 15 | 8% | 5% | 27% | 33% | 80% |
| 3D Design | 13 | 7% | 2% | 38% | 16% | 100% |
| Russian | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports / Movement Science | 35 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 19 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Worcestershire
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Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College
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Christopher Whitehead Language College
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85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.8
Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form Centre
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84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.1
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.