Alec Hunter Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,058 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.7
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Burnt Mill Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 959of 1,200 places
- Free school meals
- 27.6%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 170
- Ofsted
- Good, 22 February 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Burnt Mill Comprehensive School (URN 115219, until 1 December 2011).
What the data says
Burnt Mill Academy has no sixth form. Of the 223 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 1% moved to a sixth form college, 57% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 22% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 45.2 against 46.1 across England and 45.1 in Essex, with 44% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: 1% took an apprenticeship and 4% went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
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 Essex and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Burnt Mill Academy | Essex | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 223 | 15,970 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 92% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 87% | 86% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 29% | 37% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 1% | 9% | 13% |
| — further education college | 57% | 38% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 4% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Burnt Mill Academy | Essex | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 45.2 | 45.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 44% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 61% | 64% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 35% | 39% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.09 | 3.97 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 28% | 22% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 35.6 | 31.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 48.8 | 48.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 18% | 9% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 169 | 99% | 89% | 19% | 20% | 68% |
| Mathematics | 169 | 99% | 88% | 18% | 22% | 67% |
| English Literature | 159 | 94% | 86% | 21% | 21% | 75% |
| Combined Science | 148 | 87% | 65% | 8% | 9% | 56% |
| History | 132 | 78% | 41% | 21% | 26% | 65% |
| Spanish | 54 | 32% | 19% | 20% | 27% | 87% |
| Computer Science | 43 | 25% | 13% | 35% | 30% | 91% |
| Business Studies | 41 | 24% | 18% | 10% | 20% | 51% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 37 | 22% | 8% | 5% | 21% | 68% |
| Citizenship Studies | 34 | 20% | 3% | 35% | 19% | 79% |
| Geography | 33 | 19% | 41% | 30% | 25% | 67% |
| Physical Education | 28 | 16% | 11% | 11% | 24% | 54% |
| Chemistry | 18 | 11% | 23% | 56% | 47% | 100% |
| Biology | 18 | 11% | 23% | 56% | 45% | 100% |
| Physics | 18 | 11% | 23% | 72% | 46% | 100% |
| Fine Art | 16 | 9% | 9% | 13% | 28% | 81% |
| Design and Technology | 13 | 8% | 11% | 8% | 23% | 31% |
| Drama | 12 | 7% | 7% | 0% | 27% | 75% |
| Music | 12 | 7% | 5% | 8% | 33% | 75% |
| Photography | 12 | 7% | 6% | 25% | 19% | 92% |
| Turkish | 3 | 2% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
| Dance | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 27% | — |
| French | 1 | 1% | 18% | — | 29% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Chinese | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
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Becket Keys Church of England Free School
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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.