Compass Community School Essex

Other independent special school · Mixed · ages 11–19Essex, ESSEX CO16school website

A special school in Essex for ages 11–19: the Department for Education has not published destination figures for it, so this page relies on the school’s own results and subjects.

Ofsted
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Places
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Pupils
16

Ofsted: Not covered by Ofsted school inspections. Places: the last distance at which places were offered is not on file (it comes from Essex’s allocation statistics). Pupils: of 78 places.

GCSE · Year 11 · 2025

How do GCSE results compare?

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Subjects · 2025

What do pupils study?

49.78%of the Key Stage 3 and GCSE curriculum mapped by the subjects taken here

Mapped — the share of the 2,029 learning outcomes the Department for Education sets for these stages that the subjects taken here cover, weighted by how many pupils take each.

DfE subject entries 2025 · curriculum catalogue by sch.today

Mathematics & Statistics42%
Language & Communication29%
Health & Safety27%
Green & Sustainability25%
Natural Sciences21%

Fields of knowledge — twelve fields the curriculum catalogue sorts every learning outcome into; the bars show the GCSE and A level ring.

GCSE subjects6

Entries 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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language4100%89%—20%—
Mathematics4100%88%—22%—
Statistics4100%5%—20%—
Combined Science250%65%—9%—
Biology125%23%—45%—
English Literature125%86%—21%—
Fields of knowledge, all stages12
Mathematics & Statistics49%
Language & Communication45%
Health & Safety40%
Green & Sustainability38%
Natural Sciences36%
Transversal Skills28%
Engineering & Manufacturing24%
Digital & ICT Skills15%
Arts & Humanities12%
Law & Public Administration7%
Social & Cultural Skills5%
Business & Administration3%

Ideas pupils meet most, weighted by the share of the cohort taking the subjects that teach them:

fraction 16.0percentage 10.3ratio 9.3vocabulary 8.0equation 8.0gradient 7.7power 7.3bias 7.0root 7.0translation 7.0audience 6.6grammar 6.3hypothesis 6.2particle model 6.0formulae 6.0reflection 6.0theoretical probability 6.0prediction 5.6area 5.3standard form 5.3linear functions 5.0direct proportion 5.0inverse proportion 5.0volume 5.0

Coverage counts a subject’s outcomes in proportion to the share of the cohort entered for it; Combined Science counts as two thirds of the three separate sciences. Levels follow ISCED 2011 as UNESCO maps it for the UK: Key Stage 3 is ISCED 2; GCSE and A level are both ISCED 3. Methodology: about the data.

Careers

Which jobs use what’s taught here?

12apprenticeship standards closely match the subjects pupils take

A match of what’s taught, not of entry requirements: the standards whose knowledge and skills share the most ideas with the GCSEs and A levels taken here, weighted by how many pupils take each subject.

Level 3 / Level 6 — England’s qualification levels: 3 is A level standard, 4–5 are higher apprenticeships, 6 is a bachelor’s degree.

Skills England apprenticeship standards (Open Government Licence v3.0) · ESCO occupations, © European Union, matched by sch.today · how the match works

Water industry asset maintenance technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses ratio, percentage, area from Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and 5 more · jobs: consumer electronics repair technician, industrial electrician, electrician
ScientistLevel 6 degree apprenticeship · health and science · uses sampling technique, conclusion, data interpretation from Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and 2 more · jobs: physicist, analytical chemist, geneticist
Process industry manufacturing technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses pressure, graph, conservation of mass from Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and 3 more · jobs: chemical engineering technician, chemical manufacturing quality technician, chemical production manager
More apprenticeships9
Data technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · digital · uses mean, integer, outlier from English Language, Mathematics, Statistics and 2 more · jobs: data analyst, database administrator, data scientist
Geoscientist (integrated degree)Level 6 degree apprenticeship · health and science · uses data collection, data interpretation, climate change from Biology, Chemistry, Statistics and 3 more · jobs: geologist, geological engineer, exploration geologist
Science manufacturing technician 2023Level 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses graph, pressure, unit conversion from Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and 2 more · jobs: pharmaceutical engineer, chemical manufacturing quality technician, pharmacy technician
Improvement technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · business and administration · uses pie chart, histogram, discrete data from Mathematics, Statistics, Physical Education · jobs: health safety and environmental manager , occupational health and safety inspector, health and safety inspector
Improvement specialistLevel 5 (higher) apprenticeship · business and administration · uses prediction, correlation, sample size from Biology, Mathematics, Statistics · jobs: business consultant, environmental engineer, civil engineer
Battery manufacturing technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses area, volume, unit conversion from Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and 2 more · jobs: battery test technician
Artificial intelligence (AI) data specialistLevel 7 degree apprenticeship · digital · uses bias, data collection, reliability from Biology, English Language, Statistics and 2 more · jobs: ICT intelligent systems designer
Laboratory technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · health and science · uses median, graph, reliability from Mathematics, Statistics, Mathematics and 1 more · jobs: bacteriology technician, scientific laboratory technician, biology technician
Non-destructive technologies technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses ratio, formulae, si unit from Biology, Mathematics, Physics and 2 more
Admissions

How do you get a place?

Places at special schools are allocated through an Education, Health and Care plan with Essex, not by distance.

  1. Any timeAsk Essex’s SEND team to name the school in the child’s EHC plan; the school is consulted before a place is offered
Essex

Compare with nearby schools

Stayed in education at 16 · Attainment 8 · pupils

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.