Aylestone School
Community school · 443 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 36.3
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Whitecross Hereford
- Pupils on roll
- 942of 900 places
- Free school meals
- 17.6%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 182
- Ofsted
- Good, 7 June 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Whitecross Hereford; High School and Specialist Sports College (URN 116935, until 1 January 2013).
What the data says
Whitecross Hereford has no sixth form. Of the 181 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 40% moved to a sixth form college, 42% to a further education college and 4% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 40% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 25% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 46.5 against 46.1 across England and 44.7 in Herefordshire, County of, with 42% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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 Herefordshire, County of and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Whitecross Hereford | Herefordshire, County of | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 181 | 1,788 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 91% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 83% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 8% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 40% | 37% | 13% |
| — further education college | 42% | 38% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 1% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Whitecross Hereford | Herefordshire, County of | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 46.5 | 44.7 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 42% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 60% | 64% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 20% | 36% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.03 | 3.95 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 12% | 20% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 36.0 | 33.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 48.0 | 47.5 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 10% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 180 | 99% | 88% | 12% | 22% | 70% |
| English Language | 179 | 98% | 89% | 16% | 20% | 67% |
| English Literature | 178 | 98% | 86% | 11% | 21% | 68% |
| Combined Science | 145 | 80% | 65% | 8% | 9% | 74% |
| History | 102 | 56% | 41% | 23% | 26% | 55% |
| Geography | 98 | 54% | 41% | 28% | 25% | 81% |
| Physical Education | 75 | 41% | 11% | 25% | 24% | 80% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 54 | 30% | 8% | 13% | 21% | 89% |
| Photography | 45 | 25% | 6% | 4% | 19% | 80% |
| Spanish | 39 | 21% | 19% | 26% | 27% | 79% |
| Fine Art | 34 | 19% | 9% | 24% | 28% | 82% |
| Physics | 31 | 17% | 23% | 48% | 46% | 97% |
| Biology | 30 | 16% | 23% | 50% | 45% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 16% | 23% | 60% | 47% | 100% |
| Design and Technology | 27 | 15% | 11% | 11% | 23% | 63% |
| Citizenship Studies | 27 | 15% | 3% | 44% | 19% | 93% |
| Computer Science | 19 | 10% | 13% | 26% | 30% | 68% |
| Religious Studies | 14 | 8% | 31% | 14% | 32% | 57% |
| Polish | 4 | 2% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Music | 4 | 2% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
| Portuguese | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Business Management | 25 | — | — |
| Sports / Movement Science | 19 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 13 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Herefordshire, County of
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John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre Academy
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John Masefield High School
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89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.2
Kingstone High School
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82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.3
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.