Atlantic Academy Portland
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 769 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 34.0
Academy sponsor led
All Saints' Church of England Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 598of 900 places
- Free school meals
- 33.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 156
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 21 November 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: All Saints' Church of England School, Weymouth (URN 113896, until 31 May 2019).
What the data says
All Saints' Church of England Academy has no sixth form. Of the 148 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 63% to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 35.6 against 46.1 across England and 43.2 in Dorset, with 33% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Fine Art is unusually popular at GCSE: 24% of the year group took it, against 9% of pupils across England.
As an 11–16 school, All Saints' Church of England Academy is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.
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 Dorset and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Dorset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 148 | 3,781 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 91% | 94% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 86% | 85% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 23% | 43% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | — | 13% |
| — further education college | 63% | 39% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 5% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 4% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Dorset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 35.6 | 43.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 33% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 47% | 62% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 45% | 38% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.21 | 3.79 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 41% | 24% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 27.8 | 31.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 41.0 | 46.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 11% | 4% | 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 | 152 | 97% | 88% | 9% | 22% | 53% |
| English Language | 151 | 97% | 89% | 15% | 20% | 54% |
| English Literature | 150 | 96% | 86% | 12% | 21% | 59% |
| Combined Science | 128 | 82% | 65% | 4% | 9% | 34% |
| History | 83 | 53% | 41% | 19% | 26% | 54% |
| Religious Studies | 65 | 42% | 31% | 26% | 32% | 80% |
| Geography | 53 | 34% | 41% | 23% | 25% | 58% |
| French | 47 | 30% | 18% | 0% | 29% | 19% |
| Fine Art | 38 | 24% | 9% | 8% | 28% | 21% |
| Design and Technology | 34 | 22% | 11% | 3% | 23% | 9% |
| German | 26 | 17% | 5% | 4% | 33% | 62% |
| Biology | 23 | 15% | 23% | 22% | 45% | 74% |
| Chemistry | 21 | 13% | 23% | 14% | 47% | 62% |
| Physics | 21 | 13% | 23% | 10% | 46% | 67% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 20 | 13% | 8% | 5% | 21% | 55% |
| Computer Science | 15 | 10% | 13% | 20% | 30% | 80% |
| Music | 10 | 6% | 5% | 0% | 33% | 30% |
| Polish | 3 | 2% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Spanish | 1 | 1% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
| Portuguese | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childcare Skills | 35 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 21 | — | — |
| Engineering Studies | 20 | — | — |
| Tourism | 18 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 11 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Dorset
Beaminster School
Voluntary controlled school · sixth form · 673 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.0
Budmouth Academy Weymouth
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,466 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.0
Dorset Studio School
Studio schools · 332 pupils
64% stayed in education · Attainment 8 34.1
Ferndown Upper School
Community school · sixth form · 1,134 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.7
Gillingham School
Academy converter · sixth form
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.7
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.