Abbeywood Community School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,294 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.0
Other independent special school
Aurora Hedgeway School
- Pupils on roll
- 63of 63 places
- Free school meals
- —
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 11
- Ofsted
- Not covered by Ofsted school inspections
What the data says
The Department for Education has not published where Aurora Hedgeway School’s Year 11 leavers went next, so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.
Aurora Hedgeway School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 7.8, 9% 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 South Gloucestershire and England.
The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Aurora Hedgeway School | South Gloucestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 7.8 | 42.9 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 9% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 9% | 62% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 25% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.65 | 3.73 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | — | 18% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 31.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 45.4 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | — | 11% | 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 | 4 | 36% | 89% | — | 20% | — |
| Mathematics | 3 | 27% | 88% | — | 22% | — |
| Art and Design | 2 | 18% | 7% | — | 24% | — |
| Geography | 2 | 18% | 41% | — | 25% | — |
| Combined Science | 1 | 9% | 65% | — | 9% | — |
Where Aurora Hedgeway School is
Other secondary schools in South Gloucestershire are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from South Gloucestershire’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in South Gloucestershire
Bradley Stoke Community School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,393 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.6
Brimsham Green School
Community school · sixth form · 1,095 pupils
79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.9
Chipping Sodbury School
Academy converter · sixth form · 775 pupils
79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.7
Digitech Studio School
Studio schools · sixth form · 608 pupils
67% stayed in education · Attainment 8 31.2
Downend School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,415 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.0
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.