We are incredibly proud of our Class of 2025 for their brilliant GCSE results, which reflect continued improvement across the school and demonstrate our students’ hard work and dedication. Please see below for further information on our GCSE results.

2025 Headlines

This highlights our continuous improvements in GCSE results, with Attainment 8 increasing by 1.8, 5+ in English and Maths increasing by 7.2% and 7+ in English and Maths increasing by 6.4% compared to 2023/2024. 

In addition, 20 subjects improved attainment in 2025, with Triple Science, PE and French achieving above National Attainment.

To see the headlines over the years, please click this link here: Headline Measures Across the Years- Website

You can view the DfE academy performance tables website at the following link: Orchard Mead Academy – Compare school and college performance data in England – GOV.UK

Headline Explanation:

Average Attainment 8 – the points value of student’s best 8 GCSE grades (with English and Maths counted twice).

Basics – a key performance measure for schools is the proportion of students who attain a ‘Good Pass’ in both English and mathematics (grade 4 or above). A ‘Strong Pass’ is considered to be grade 5 and above. For English, it is the student’s best grade of English Language and Literature which is included.

Progress 8: The progress made by students towards achieving their expected grades based on their achievements at KS2. It is a calculation based on the achievement across 8 subjects for each student and based on whether they met, exceeded or were below their expected performance in each subject.  (Due to the absence of KS2 data, the class of 2024 and the class of 2025 do not have a progress 8 score)

Destination Measure

A measure of a school’s success is how well-prepared students are for the next stage in their life.

94%  of our 2024 cohort had positive destinations, they are participating in either:

  • Full-time study in a school, college or with a training provider
  • Full-time work or volunteering combined with part-time education or training
  • An apprenticeship or traineeship