Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy

Free schools·Secondary school Slough·SL2 5AY
Composite score
47.9
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#2,736
National rank
#401
In South East
#13
In Slough
Top 86%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
38.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
31%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
48%
% EBacc grade 5+
4%
EBacc average points score
3.12

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
104 first choices, 151 places
First choices per place
0.69
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
299
any preference, for 151 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.16
00.511.5
1 per place
0.4320220.4720230.3920240.5320250.692026

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

Every child who put Lynch Hill Enterprise 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
866
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
40.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
51.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.3%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
23.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.6
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,999
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
87%
167 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
82%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy at a glance

Located in Slough, Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a free school. The school educates roughly 866 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 38.3, below the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 1.1 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.

31% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 48% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 104 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 87% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.3%. There are about 17.6 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. Lynch Hill Enterprise 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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