The Boulevard Academy

Free schools·Secondary school Kingston-upon-Hull, Kingston upon Hull, City of·HU3 3QT
Composite score
49.5
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National rank
#241
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#8
In Kingston upon Hull, City of
Top 81%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
39.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
33%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
48%
% EBacc grade 5+
18%
EBacc average points score
3.84

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
117 first choices, 171 places
First choices per place
0.68
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
207
any preference, for 171 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.11
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6020220.6220230.5620240.8020250.682026

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

Every child who put The Boulevard Academy first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
811
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
51.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
49.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.9%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
11.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
39.1%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.1
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,982
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
84%
102 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
80%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

The Boulevard Academy at a glance

Located in Kingston-upon-Hull, Kingston upon Hull, City of, The Boulevard Academy is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a free school. The school educates roughly 811 pupils aged 11 to 16. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 39.6 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 3.0 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

33% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 48% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made The Boulevard Academy their first choice was offered one of its 171 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 84% 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 14.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 52% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. The Boulevard 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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