All Saints' Church of England Academy

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Weymouth, Dorset·DT4 9BJ
Composite score
44.5
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#2,959
National rank
#294
In South West
#17
In Dorset
Top 93%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
35.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
33%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
47%
% EBacc grade 5+
8%
EBacc average points score
3.21

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
93 first choices, 93 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
213
any preference, for 93 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9920220.8720230.9920240.9120251.002026

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

Every child who put All Saints' Church of England 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
696
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
35.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
11.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.5%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
6.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
13.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
34.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.0
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,352
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
91%
148 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
86%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

All Saints' Church of England Academy is a secondary school serving Weymouth, Dorset, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 696 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated All Saints' Church of England Academy 'Requires improvement'. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 35.6, well below the national average of 46. That is down 4.9 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.

33% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 47% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. All Saints' Church of England Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 93 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 91% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 13.2%. There are about 17.0 pupils per teacher. If you are considering All Saints' Church of England Academy, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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