Aureus School
Academy sponsor led · 531 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 33.7
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Icknield Community College
- Pupils on roll
- 804of 700 places
- Free school meals
- 16.2%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 130
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained, 4 December 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Icknield Community College (URN 123244, until 1 February 2017).
What the data says
Icknield Community College has no sixth form. Of the 139 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 22% moved to a sixth form college, 37% to a further education college and 8% started an apprenticeship.
Media Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 25% of the year group took it, against 4% of pupils across England.
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 8% of leavers started one, roughly twice the England figure of 3%.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 51.2 against 46.1 across England and 46.4 in Oxfordshire, with 52% 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 Oxfordshire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Icknield Community College | Oxfordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 139 | 6,906 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 96% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 82% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 22% | 45% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 22% | 4% | 13% |
| — further education college | 37% | 34% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 8% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 6% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 3% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Icknield Community College | Oxfordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 51.2 | 46.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 52% | 48% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 66% | 66% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 67% | 37% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.91 | 4.14 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 14% | 20% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 29.5 | 31.3 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 54.7 | 50.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 6% | 16% | 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 | 128 | 98% | 88% | 35% | 22% | 79% |
| English Language | 128 | 98% | 89% | 18% | 20% | 71% |
| English Literature | 125 | 96% | 86% | 18% | 21% | 70% |
| Combined Science | 93 | 72% | 65% | 14% | 9% | 72% |
| History | 87 | 67% | 41% | 39% | 26% | 72% |
| Spanish | 56 | 43% | 19% | 29% | 27% | 64% |
| Geography | 50 | 38% | 41% | 44% | 25% | 76% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 47 | 36% | 8% | 26% | 21% | 49% |
| Physical Education | 39 | 30% | 11% | 23% | 24% | 77% |
| Physics | 33 | 25% | 23% | 79% | 46% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 33 | 25% | 23% | 85% | 47% | 100% |
| Biology | 33 | 25% | 23% | 82% | 45% | 100% |
| French | 32 | 25% | 18% | 38% | 29% | 81% |
| Media Studies | 32 | 25% | 4% | 38% | 20% | 81% |
| 3D Design | 24 | 18% | 2% | 25% | 16% | 67% |
| Computer Science | 22 | 17% | 13% | 32% | 30% | 64% |
| Drama | 14 | 11% | 7% | 29% | 27% | 93% |
| Statistics | 12 | 9% | 5% | 75% | 20% | 100% |
| Fine Art | 12 | 9% | 9% | 42% | 28% | 75% |
| Dance | 7 | 5% | 1% | 43% | 27% | 100% |
| Music | 6 | 5% | 5% | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| Citizenship Studies | 1 | 1% | 3% | — | 19% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| German | 1 | 1% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
| Turkish | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 24 | — | — |
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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.