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Academy sponsor led · 854 pupils
66% stayed in education · Attainment 8 31.7
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Hetton Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 681of 900 places
- Free school meals
- 44.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 116
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 10 December 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Hetton School (URN 108862, until 1 September 2022).
What the data says
Hetton Academy has no sixth form. Of the 111 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 57% to a further education college and 9% started an apprenticeship.
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 9% of leavers started one, roughly three times the England figure of 3%.
11% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 21% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils 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 Sunderland and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Hetton Academy | Sunderland | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 111 | 3,005 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 83% | 86% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 70% | 76% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 14% | 21% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | — | 13% |
| — further education college | 57% | 53% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 9% | 7% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 11% | 11% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 6% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Hetton Academy | Sunderland | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 51.8 | 43.3 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 57% | 42% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 79% | 61% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 51% | 41% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.83 | 3.81 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 42% | 36% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 44.0 | 33.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 57.4 | 49.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 3% | 6% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 116 | 100% | 89% | 36% | 20% | 88% |
| Mathematics | 116 | 100% | 88% | 26% | 22% | 79% |
| English Literature | 115 | 99% | 86% | 40% | 21% | 90% |
| Combined Science | 105 | 91% | 65% | 27% | 9% | 73% |
| Geography | 59 | 51% | 41% | 27% | 25% | 68% |
| French | 59 | 51% | 18% | 19% | 29% | 90% |
| History | 58 | 50% | 41% | 34% | 26% | 71% |
| Art and Design | 24 | 21% | 7% | 4% | 24% | 67% |
| Photography | 11 | 9% | 6% | 27% | 19% | 100% |
| Physics | 10 | 9% | 23% | 10% | 46% | 90% |
| Chemistry | 10 | 9% | 23% | 10% | 47% | 100% |
| Biology | 10 | 9% | 23% | 10% | 45% | 90% |
| Religious Studies | 6 | 5% | 31% | 0% | 32% | 33% |
| Textiles | 5 | 4% | 2% | — | 27% | — |
| Citizenship Studies | 2 | 2% | 3% | — | 19% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Design and Technology | 1 | 1% | 11% | — | 23% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Business Management | 30 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 22 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 21 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 19 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 4 | — | — |
Where Hetton Academy is
Other secondary schools in Sunderland 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 Sunderland’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Sunderland
Biddick Academy
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67% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.5
Castle View Enterprise Academy
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67% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.9
Christ's College
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74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2
Kepier
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77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.6
Monkwearmouth Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 810 pupils
77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.8
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.