Bury Church of England High School
Academy converter · 802 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.1
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Elms Bank
- Pupils on roll
- 364of 221 places
- Free school meals
- 54.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 54
- Ofsted
- Outstanding, 13 September 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Elms Bank Specialist Arts College (URN 105378, until 1 April 2019).
What the data says
Of the 27 pupils who finished Year 11 at Elms Bank in 2023, 0% stayed on in Elms Bank’s own sixth form (Bury average 2%), 15% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 2.2 against 46.1 across England and 43.4 in Bury, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Fine Art is unusually popular at GCSE: 30% of the year group took it, against 9% of pupils across England.
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 Bury and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Elms Bank | Bury | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 27 | 2,219 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 89% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 89% | 88% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 2% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 41% | 13% |
| — further education college | 15% | 44% | 37% |
| — other education | 74% | 1% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 4% | 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
| Measure | Elms Bank | Bury | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 2.2 | 43.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 39% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 62% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 28% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.06 | 3.78 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 61% | 28% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 1.9 | 33.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 2.7 | 47.4 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 15% | 17% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Art | 16 | 30% | 9% | 0% | 28% | 0% |
| English Language | 11 | 20% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 0% |
| Mathematics | 11 | 20% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 0% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 8 | 15% | 8% | 0% | 21% | 0% |
Where Elms Bank is
Other secondary schools in Bury 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 Bury’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Bury
Hazel Wood High School
Academy sponsor led · 671 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 35.7
Manchester Mesivta School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 233 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.3
Parrenthorn High School
Academy converter · 1,025 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.5
Philips High School
Academy converter · 868 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.3
St Gabriel's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,027 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.0
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.