Lawn Manor Academy

Academy converter·Secondary school Swindon·SN3 1ER
Composite score
46.9
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National rank
#283
In South West
#12
In Swindon
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
37.5
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
30%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
46%
% EBacc grade 5+
13%
EBacc average points score
3.18

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
97%
199 first choices, 200 places
First choices per place
0.99
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
385
any preference, for 200 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.21
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7820220.6820230.7120240.7820250.992026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Lawn Manor Academy yet. Swindon 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
11–16
Pupils on roll
940
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
40.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
43.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.3%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
33.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,174
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
89%
191 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
86%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Lawn Manor Academy

Lawn Manor Academy is a secondary school in Swindon, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 940 pupils aged 11 to 16 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 37.5 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.9 points compared with 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.

30% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 46% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 97% of the families who made Lawn Manor 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, 89% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.3%. There are about 17.2 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 40% 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. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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