Ansford Academy
Academy converter · 469 pupils
79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.7
Academy special converter
Critchill Special School
- Pupils on roll
- 96of 85 places
- Free school meals
- 42.9%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 6
- Ofsted
- School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next, 5 November 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Critchill School (URN 123946, until 1 June 2019).
What the data says
Of the 10 pupils who finished Year 11 at Critchill Special School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 30% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
10% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 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 Somerset and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Critchill Special School | Somerset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 10 | 5,178 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 90% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 90% | 81% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 17% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 17% | 13% |
| — further education college | 30% | 47% | 37% |
| — other education | 60% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 6% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 5% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 10% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
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.