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Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formKirklees, Yorkshire and the Humber · Cleckheaton BD19 3AQTrust: Share Multi Academy TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,228of 1,250 places
Free school meals
25.8%
Year 11 cohort 2025
247
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 5 March 2025Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Whitcliffe Mount School (URN 107780, until 1 July 2022).

What the data says

Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy has no sixth form. Of the 240 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 16% moved to a sixth form college, 45% to a further education college and 8% started an apprenticeship.

Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 8% of leavers started one, roughly twice the England figure of 3%.

Fine Art is unusually popular at GCSE: 28% of the year group took it, against 9% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 42.7 against 46.1 across England and 46.4 in Kirklees, with 45% 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 Kirklees and England.

This school
Kirklees
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureThis schoolKirkleesEngland
Pupils in the cohort2405,003607,348
Any sustained destination89%92%92%
Stayed in education78%85%86%
— school sixth form17%16%34%
— sixth form college16%33%13%
— further education college45%35%37%
— other education0%1%2%
Apprenticeship8%5%3%
Employment4%2%3%
No sustained destination8%5%6%
Destination unknown3%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureThis schoolKirkleesEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)42.746.446.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths45%47%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths63%66%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects59%38%41%
EBacc average point score3.894.064.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort31%31%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils30.835.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils48.051.250.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language9%22%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language24499%89%15%20%67%
Mathematics24499%88%20%22%69%
English Literature24097%86%7%21%65%
Combined Science18374%65%3%9%57%
History12852%41%20%26%57%
Geography11446%41%15%25%49%
Spanish7832%19%5%27%42%
French7028%18%13%29%50%
Fine Art6928%9%7%28%65%
Biology5623%23%18%45%89%
Physics5522%23%47%46%93%
Chemistry5522%23%24%47%95%
Food Preparation and Nutrition4217%8%24%21%71%
Computer Science2912%13%7%30%34%
Statistics146%5%29%20%93%
Polish62%1%100%84%100%
Russian10%0%87%
Portuguese10%0%50%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Engineering Studies82
Small Business Management54
Health Studies41
Sports / Movement Science39
Speech and Drama36
Art and Design31
Music Technology (Electronic)17

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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.