Tewkesbury Academy

Academy converter·Secondary school Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire·GL20 8DF
Composite score
53.9
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#2,046
National rank
#208
In South West
#31
In Gloucestershire
Top 64%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
43.1
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
39%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
64%
% EBacc grade 5+
6%
EBacc average points score
3.62

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
99%
143 first choices, 180 places
First choices per place
0.79
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
223
any preference, for 180 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720220.9020230.8120240.7620250.792026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Tewkesbury Academy yet. Gloucestershire 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
1,108
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
7.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.5%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
11.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
32.8%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.9
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,086
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
93%
222 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
85%
Apprenticeship
4%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Tewkesbury Academy is a secondary school serving Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 1,108 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 43.1, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 0.6 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

39% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 64% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 99% of the families who made Tewkesbury Academy their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 93% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 11.2%. There are about 16.9 pupils per teacher. Tewkesbury Academy does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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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