Abbey Park School
Academy sponsor led · 1,193 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.2
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Uplands School
- Pupils on roll
- 172of 173 places
- Free school meals
- 47.4%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 20
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 2 July 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Uplands School (URN 126555, until 1 July 2016).
What the data says
Of the 20 pupils who finished Year 11 at Uplands School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Uplands School’s own sixth form (Swindon average 19%), none went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.
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 Swindon and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Uplands School | Swindon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 20 | 2,533 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 95% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 95% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 19% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 19% | 13% |
| — further education college | 0% | 47% | 37% |
| — other education | 95% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 5% | 2% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
No published Key Stage 4 results for this 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.