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Coppice Academy

Mixed · ages 11–16Staffordshire, West Midlands · Newcastle ST5 2EYTrust: The Shaw Education TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
106of 90 places
Free school meals
47.2%
Year 11 cohort 2025
24
Ofsted
School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next, 4 February 2025Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Coppice School (URN 124511, until 1 October 2014).

What the data says

Of the 14 pupils who finished Year 11 at Coppice Academy in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 21% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 2.4 against 46.1 across England and 43.9 in Staffordshire, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

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.

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 Staffordshire and England.

Coppice Academy
Staffordshire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureCoppice AcademyStaffordshireEngland
Pupils in the cohort149,264607,348
Any sustained destination86%92%92%
Stayed in education86%84%86%
— school sixth form0%33%34%
— sixth form college0%3%13%
— further education college21%46%37%
— other education64%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%5%3%
Employment0%3%3%
No sustained destination7%6%6%
Destination unknown7%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureCoppice AcademyStaffordshireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)2.443.946.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%40%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%62%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%33%41%
EBacc average point score0.153.784.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort29%23%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils1.332.934.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils2.847.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language17%8%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
Mathematics833%88%0%22%0%
English Language729%89%0%20%0%
History313%41%26%

Other secondary schools in Staffordshire

Abbot Beyne School

Voluntary controlled school · sixth form · 834 pupils

87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.4

Alleyne's Academy

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90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.7

Biddulph High School

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84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.3

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.