Brooke Weston Academy

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Great Oakley, North Northamptonshire·NN18 8LA
Composite score
63.1
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National rank
#66
In East Midlands
#2
In North Northamptonshire
Top 27%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
50.5
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
59%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
75%
% EBacc grade 5+
31%
EBacc average points score
4.83

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
55%
291 first choices, 180 places
First choices per place
1.62
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
664
any preference, for 180 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.08
00.511.522.5
1 per place
2.1720222.0220231.8220241.7020251.622026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Brooke Weston Academy yet. North Northamptonshire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,179
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.6%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
19.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.5%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
17.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,356
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
96%
180 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
92%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Brooke Weston Academy

Brooke Weston Academy is a secondary school in Great Oakley, North Northamptonshire, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. Around 1,179 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 50.5 — above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 2.3 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 27% of secondary schools nationally.

59% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 75% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Brooke Weston Academy is oversubscribed: about 6 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 291 first choices for 180 places. After Year 11, 96% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 6.1%. There are about 15.2 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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