Today the GCSE results for 2011 were released. The government will try to claim that they are proof that academies work.
In reality the 2011 GCSE results show real problems with the academies programme.
274 academies entered pupils for GCSEs in 2011 and 212 of these had entered pupils in 2010, allowing a comparison of their results.
Most of these academies were created under the Labour government and most will have benefitted from new school buildings.
Decline
Comparing results for 2011 to results for 2010 shows 27% saw their results decline or remain the same. This is 57 academies, with 6 declining by 10% or more.
Not only does this mean that ¼ of all academies made no progress, but this is worse than the results last year where 20% saw their results decline from 2009 – 2010.
Floor targets
The government have a floor target requiring that 35% of pupils achieve 5 A*-C GCSEs. Schools with results below this can be pressured to become sponsored academies.
41 of the academies entering pupils for GCSE were under the government floor target – this means 41 academies are eligible to be taken over and run as….. what Mr Gove?
In total 107 schools are under the floor target which means academies make up 39% of all these schools.
Highs and lows
53 Academies appear in the list of 200 schools with the lowest GCSE results but only 3 Academies appear in the list of 200 schools with the highest GCSE results.
Are Academies proven to succeed?
Michael Gove and the DfE claim that academies are proven to succeed. The 2011 GCSE results clearly show that this is untrue. On a range of measures it is becoming clearer that while some academies do well, others do badly, and converting a school into an academy is no guarantee that it will improve. More details here
Notes
274 academies entered pupils for GCSEs in 2011
41 are below the government floor target of 35%
212 had entered pupils in 2010 as well, allowing comparison
68 declined or remained the same.
Of the 68 there are 11 with very high results and we have excluded a marginal reduction in their results.
This leaves 57 academies which have declined or remained the same – 27%
| Academy Name | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 to 2011
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| City of London Academy – Islington | 38% | 43% | 31% | -12% | |
| Red House Academy | 30% | 19% | -11% | ||
| Birkenhead High School Academy | 100% | 89% | -11% | ||
| Stockport Academy | 27% | 25% | 51% | 41% | -10% |
| The Bulwell Academy | 35% | 25% | -10% | ||
| Appleton Academy | 47% | 37% | -10% | ||
| Macmillan Academy | 69% | 68% | 75% | 66% | -9% |
| Ashcroft Technology Academy | 68% | 70% | 79% | 71% | -8% |
| Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy | 50% | 42% | -8% | ||
| Maltings Academy | 38% | 50% | 42% | -8% | |
| New Line Learning Academy | 13% | 19% | 37% | 30% | -7% |
| Audenshaw School Academy Trust | 64% | 57% | 74% | 67% | -7% |
| Grace Academy Solihull | 28% | 20% | 37% | 31% | -6% |
| University of Chester CE Academy | 38% | 32% | -6% | ||
| City of London Academy (Southwark) | 41% | 38% | 49% | 43% | -6% |
| Bacon’s College | 60% | 53% | 72% | 66% | -6% |
| Huish Episcopi Academy | 62% | 52% | 74% | 68% | -6% |
| The Steiner Academy Hereford | 0% | 75% | 70% | -5% | |
| Havelock Academy | 27% | 40% | 41% | 36% | -5% |
| Grace Academy Coventry | 29% | 45% | 40% | -5% | |
| The Wellington Academy | 45% | 40% | -5% | ||
| The Hereford Academy | 25% | 40% | 36% | -4% | |
| Bristol Brunel Academy | 35% | 25% | 45% | 41% | -4% |
| Trinity Academy | 37% | 55% | 63% | 59% | -4% |
| Landau Forte College | 68% | 54% | 68% | 64% | -4% |
| The Belvedere Academy | 95% | 96% | 100% | 96% | -4% |
| Corby Business Academy | 21% | 36% | 32% | -4% | |
| The Crest Girls Academy | 47% | 43% | -4% | ||
| Unity City Academy | 18% | 23% | 28% | 25% | -3% |
| Harris Academy Falconwood | 42% | 60% | 57% | -3% | |
| CTC Kingshurst Academy | 59% | 64% | 61% | -3% | |
| The Fallibroome Academy | 75% | 67% | 75% | 72% | -3% |
| South Leeds Academy | 29% | 26% | -3% | ||
| The Oxford Academy | 18% | 31% | 28% | -3% | |
| Longfield Academy | 35% | 42% | 39% | -3% | |
| Heartlands Academy | 47% | 44% | -3% | ||
| West Lakes Academy | 27% | 47% | 44% | -3% | |
| Thomas Deacon Academy | 29% | 37% | 45% | 43% | -2% |
| The King’s Academy | 45% | 38% | 51% | 49% | -2% |
| Healing Science Academy | 72% | 69% | 87% | 85% | -2% |
| The City Academy Bristol | 24% | 34% | 36% | 34% | -2% |
| Manchester Creative and Media Academy for Boys | 28% | 27% | -1% | ||
| Spires Academy | 32% | 30% | 32% | 31% | -1% |
| Richard Rose Central Academy | 27% | 32% | 31% | -1% | |
| Manchester Creative and Media Academy for Girls | 38% | 37% | -1% | ||
| George Salter Collegiate Academy | 34% | 39% | 39% | 38% | -1% |
| North Liverpool Academy | 36% | 31% | 45% | 44% | -1% |
| Abraham Darby Academy | 38% | 53% | 52% | -1% | |
| St Paul’s Academy | 61% | 56% | 58% | 57% | -1% |
| Northampton School for Boys | 86% | 86% | 83% | 82% | -1% |
| Brooke Weston Academy | 81% | 85% | 84% | -1% | |
| William Hulme’s Grammar School | 93% | 85% | 90% | 89% | -1% |
| The Priory Academy LSST | 98% | 99% | 98% | -1% | |
| Kem l Technology College | 45% | 55% | 57% | 56% | -1% |
| Sheffield Springs Academy | 22% | 23% | 32% | 32% | 0% |
| Clacton Coastal Academy | 38% | 38% | 0% | ||
| New Rickstones Academy | 36% | 40% | 40% | 0% | |
| Manchester Health Academy | 41% | 41% | 0% | ||
| RSA Academy | 29% | 45% | 45% | 0% | |
| Nottingham Academy | 47% | 47% | 0% | ||
| The St Lawrence Academy | 35% | 48% | 48% | 0% | |
| John Cabot Academy | 60% | 63% | 73% | 73% | 0% |
| Mossbourne Community Academy | 86% | 82% | 82% | 0% | |
| Urmston Grammar Academy | 100% | 98% | 98% | 98% | 0% |
| Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Heckmondwike Grammar School | 99% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Westcliff High School for Boys Academy | 98% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Shireland Collegiate Academy | 30% | 38% | 34% | 35% | 1% |
| Richard Rose Morton Academy | 28% | 34% | 35% | 1% | |
| The Milton Keynes Academy | 19% | 20% | 1% | ||
| Oasis Academy Brightstowe | 22% | 29% | 30% | 1% | |
| The Sir Robert Woodard Academy | 36% | 37% | 1% | ||
| Ormiston Park Academy | 39% | 40% | 1% | ||
| Samworth Church Academy | 25% | 41% | 42% | 1% | |
| Shelfield Community Academy | 30% | 44% | 45% | 1% | |
| Westminster Academy | 20% | 38% | 45% | 46% | 1% |
| Pimlico Academy | 42% | 59% | 60% | 1% | |
| The Charter School | 53% | 56% | 66% | 67% | 1% |
| Dixons City Academy | 89% | 90% | 79% | 80% | 1% |
| Tollbar Academy | 81% | 86% | 82% | 83% | 1% |
| Watford Grammar School for Girls | 96% | 95% | 96% | 97% | 1% |
| Parkwood Academy | 28% | 30% | 2% | ||
| The Open Academy | 32% | 33% | 35% | 2% | |
| St Michael and All Angels CofE Academy | 25% | 27% | 46% | 48% | 2% |
| The Basildon Upper Academy | 31% | 33% | 2% | ||
| Djanogly City Academy Nottingham | 33% | 37% | 36% | 38% | 2% |
| West London Academy | 32% | 31% | 38% | 40% | 2% |
| Kettering Science Academy | 41% | 43% | 2% | ||
| Globe Academy | 35% | 42% | 44% | 2% | |
| The Crest Boys Academy | 44% | 46% | 2% | ||
| Colston’s Girls’ School | 85% | 91% | 94% | 3% | |
| John Madejski Academy | 23% | 18% | 28% | 31% | 3% |
| The Academy of St Francis of Assisi | 15% | 21% | 34% | 37% | 3% |
| Bristol Metropolitan Academy | 39% | 42% | 3% | ||
| Q3 Academy | 44% | 63% | 66% | 3% | |
| Cornwallis Academy | 48% | 53% | 53% | 57% | 4% |
| Holyrood Academy | 48% | 50% | 54% | 58% | 4% |
| Excelsior Academy | 12% | 25% | 29% | 4% | |
| Grace Academy Darlaston | 32% | 36% | 4% | ||
| Oasis Academy Lord’s Hill | 26% | 40% | 44% | 4% | |
| Salford City Academy | 31% | 34% | 49% | 53% | 4% |
| Walthamstow Academy | 32% | 31% | 50% | 54% | 4% |
| Barnsley Academy | 14% | 19% | 51% | 55% | 4% |
| Essa Academy | 37% | 52% | 56% | 4% | |
| Chadwell Heath Academy | 85% | 79% | 82% | 86% | 4% |
| The Isle of Sheppey Academy | 30% | 35% | 5% | ||
| Sheffield Park Academy | 22% | 25% | 31% | 36% | 5% |
| Swindon Academy | 9% | 26% | 32% | 37% | 5% |
| South Wolverhampton and Bilston Academy | 36% | 41% | 5% | ||
| Capital City Academy | 27% | 31% | 43% | 48% | 5% |
| The Harefield Academy | 29% | 46% | 43% | 48% | 5% |
| Oasis Academy Shirley Park | 46% | 51% | 5% | ||
| Outwood Academy Adwick | 46% | 51% | 5% | ||
| Priory City of Lincoln Academy | 28% | 41% | 46% | 5% | |
| The Westlands School | 38% | 38% | 51% | 56% | 5% |
| The Giles Academy | 48% | 53% | 51% | 56% | 5% |
| Bristol Cathedral Choir School | 78% | 75% | 80% | 5% | |
| Paddington Academy | 41% | 34% | 63% | 69% | 6% |
| The Cotswold Academy | 64% | 55% | 68% | 74% | 6% |
| Hartismere High School | 64% | 62% | 68% | 74% | 6% |
| The Marlowe Academy | 13% | 12% | 14% | 20% | 6% |
| Bolton St Catherine’s Academy | 36% | 42% | 6% | ||
| Oasis Academy Wintringham | 22% | 26% | 38% | 44% | 6% |
| Shoreham Academy | 45% | 51% | 6% | ||
| St Anne’s Academy | 43% | 46% | 46% | 52% | 6% |
| Outwood Grange Academy | 71% | 77% | 6% | ||
| Trent Valley Academy | 31% | 34% | 41% | 7% | |
| Sirius Academy | 40% | 47% | 7% | ||
| Barnfield West Academy Luton | 47% | 54% | 52% | 59% | 7% |
| Greensward Academy | 55% | 65% | 72% | 7% | |
| Arthur Mellows Village College | 50% | 63% | 65% | 72% | 7% |
| George Spencer Academy and Technology College | 66% | 74% | 65% | 72% | 7% |
| Harris City Academy Crystal Palace | 78% | 82% | 88% | 95% | 7% |
| Watford Grammar School for Boys | 97% | 97% | 89% | 96% | 7% |
| Merchants’ Academy | 17% | 25% | 32% | 7% | |
| Greig City Academy | 30% | 40% | 30% | 37% | 7% |
| Northumberland CofE Academy | 30% | 37% | 7% | ||
| Leeds West Academy | 37% | 44% | 7% | ||
| Oasis Academy Immingham | 15% | 30% | 38% | 45% | 7% |
| The Leigh Technology Academy | 40% | 42% | 49% | 56% | 7% |
| Darwen Aldridge Community Academy | 23% | 49% | 56% | 7% | |
| Brine Leas School | 64% | 76% | 73% | 80% | 7% |
| Stockley Academy | 18% | 26% | 33% | 41% | 8% |
| The Littlehampton Academy | 34% | 42% | 8% | ||
| Burlington Danes Academy | 41% | 50% | 67% | 75% | 8% |
| Uffculme School | 81% | 78% | 77% | 85% | 8% |
| All Saints Academy Dunstable | 29% | 37% | 8% | ||
| Park Hall Academy | 32% | 40% | 8% | ||
| Ormiston Bushfield Academy | 42% | 50% | 8% | ||
| London Academy | 36% | 35% | 45% | 53% | 8% |
| The Ridings Federation Winterbourne Inter tio l Academy | 72% | 80% | 8% | ||
| Manchester Enterprise Academy | 27% | 36% | 9% | ||
| Madeley Academy | 43% | 47% | 48% | 57% | 9% |
| The Bushey Academy | 21% | 30% | 9% | ||
| Kettering Buccleuch Academy | 37% | 46% | 9% | ||
| The Ridings Federation Yate Inter tio l Academy | 42% | 51% | 9% | ||
| Droylsden Academy | 46% | 55% | 9% | ||
| St George’s Academy | 47% | 56% | 9% | ||
| Tudor Grange Academy Worcester | 28% | 38% | 10% | ||
| Priory Witham Academy | 35% | 31% | 41% | 10% | |
| St Aidan’s Church of England Academy | 28% | 39% | 34% | 44% | 10% |
| Manchester Academy | 35% | 39% | 38% | 48% | 10% |
| Archbishop Sentamu Academy | 28% | 39% | 49% | 10% | |
| Maltby Academy | 51% | 61% | 10% | ||
| Hardenhuish School | 62% | 73% | 56% | 66% | 10% |
| Walworth Academy | 35% | 45% | 59% | 69% | 10% |
| Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College | 94% | 90% | 68% | 78% | 10% |
| De Warenne Academy | 30% | 40% | 10% | ||
| New Charter Academy | 33% | 36% | 46% | 10% | |
| The Business Academy Bexley | 29% | 40% | 42% | 52% | 10% |
| North Birmingham Academy | 32% | 43% | 11% | ||
| North Oxfordshire Academy | 28% | 25% | 38% | 49% | 11% |
| Oasis Academy Bristol | 22% | 29% | 40% | 11% | |
| Oasis Academy MediaCityUK | 31% | 41% | 52% | 11% | |
| Midhurst Rother College | 44% | 42% | 53% | 11% | |
| Castle View Enterprise Academy | 43% | 54% | 11% | ||
| The Langley Academy | 33% | 44% | 55% | 11% | |
| Fulwood Academy | 29% | 41% | 12% | ||
| Barnfield South Academy Luton | 36% | 36% | 34% | 46% | 12% |
| Oasis Academy Hadley | 35% | 47% | 12% | ||
| Marsh Academy | 32% | 30% | 35% | 47% | 12% |
| Northampton Academy | 26% | 40% | 35% | 47% | 12% |
| Oasis Academy Coulsdon | 44% | 37% | 49% | 12% | |
| Bradford Academy | 18% | 24% | 24% | 37% | 13% |
| City Academy Norwich | 26% | 39% | 13% | ||
| Shenley Academy | 33% | 46% | 13% | ||
| Accrington Academy | 32% | 33% | 47% | 14% | |
| Academy 360 | 17% | 21% | 35% | 14% | |
| The Aylesbury Vale Academy | 26% | 40% | 14% | ||
| Skinners’ Kent Academy | 31% | 45% | 14% | ||
| Harris Academy Purley | 47% | 61% | 14% | ||
| The Gateway Academy | 17% | 31% | 42% | 56% | 14% |
| Charter Academy | 24% | 39% | 15% | ||
| Harris Academy Bermondsey | 40% | 50% | 49% | 64% | 15% |
| Harris Academy South Norwood | 30% | 43% | 60% | 75% | 15% |
| Dixons Allerton Academy | 27% | 43% | 16% | ||
| Furness Academy | 33% | 49% | 16% | ||
| Harris Academy at Peckham | 29% | 26% | 34% | 50% | 16% |
| St Matthew Academy | 23% | 23% | 43% | 59% | 16% |
| Strood Academy | 29% | 45% | 16% | ||
| Walsall Academy | 49% | 61% | 52% | 68% | 16% |
| David Young Community Academy | 32% | 29% | 31% | 48% | 17% |
| St Alban’s Academy | 50% | 67% | 17% | ||
| Folkestone Academy | 14% | 27% | 25% | 43% | 18% |
| Francis Combe Academy | 31% | 49% | 18% | ||
| Harris Girls’ Academy East Dulwich | 42% | 38% | 49% | 67% | 18% |
| Haberdashers’ Aske’s Knights Academy | 19% | 35% | 38% | 57% | 19% |
| Oasis Academy Mayfield | 35% | 29% | 48% | 19% | |
| St Mark’s Church of England Academy | 22% | 28% | 23% | 43% | 20% |
| Lambeth Academy | 35% | 36% | 59% | 23% | |
| Nottingham University Samworth Academy | 21% | 44% | 23% | ||
| Harris Academy Merton | 38% | 48% | 49% | 75% | 26% |
| St Aldhelm’s Academy | 3% | ||||
| Bishop of Rochester Academy | 16% | ||||
| Havant Academy | 22% | ||||
| University Academy Keighley | 26% | ||||
| Dartmouth Academy | 28% | ||||
| Dover Christ Church Academy | 28% | ||||
| The Thetford Academy | 28% | ||||
| The John Wallis Church of England Academy | 31% | ||||
| North Shore Health Academy | 32% | ||||
| Gloucester Academy | 32% | ||||
| Freebrough Academy | 33% | ||||
| The Eastbourne Academy | 33% | ||||
| Bedford Academy | 34% | ||||
| Brompton Academy | 34% | ||||
| Malcolm Arnold Academy | 34% | ||||
| Drapers’ Academy | 36% | ||||
| The All Saints Church of England Academy | 36% | ||||
| Oasis Academy Oldham | 37% | ||||
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | 37% | ||||
| Sarum Academy | 37% | ||||
| Harborne Academy | 38% | ||||
| The Bishop of Winchester Academy | 38% | ||||
| Co-Operative Academy at Brownhills | 38% | ||||
| Marine Academy Plymouth | 38% | ||||
| Enterprise South Liverpool Academy | 39% | ||||
| Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy | 39% | ||||
| The Quest Academy | 41% | ||||
| Nightingale Academy | 42% | ||||
| King’s Lynn Academy | 42% | ||||
| The Nuneaton Academy | 42% | ||||
| Richmond Park Academy | 43% | ||||
| The Co-operative Academy of Manchester | 44% | ||||
| The Oldham Academy North | 44% | ||||
| The Winsford E-ACT Academy | 44% | ||||
| Thor by Academy | 45% | ||||
| The Bourne Academy | 45% | ||||
| Skegness Academy | 45% | ||||
| The Sutton Academy | 46% | ||||
| Waterhead Academy | 46% | ||||
| Ormiston Venture Academy | 46% | ||||
| Hampton Academy | 47% | ||||
| Skinners’ Academy | 48% | ||||
| Aylward Academy | 48% | ||||
| Landau Forte Academy | 48% | ||||
| Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy | 48% | ||||
| The Priory Ruskin Academy | 48% | ||||
| Twickenham Academy | 49% | ||||
| North East Wolverhampton Academy | 49% | ||||
| Colchester Academy | 49% | ||||
| Wilmington Academy | 49% | ||||
| Knole Academy | 50% | ||||
| The Taunton Academy | 50% | ||||
| Kearsley Academy | 51% | ||||
| Sidney Stringer Academy | 52% | ||||
| King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy | 53% | ||||
| Tollbar Edge Cleethorpes Academy | 53% | ||||
| Shirebrook Academy | 55% | ||||
| Trinity Academy, Halifax | 61% | ||||
| The Petchey Academy | 61% | ||||
| Ormiston Victory Academy | 64% | ||||
| Sandwell Academy | 73% | ||||
| Duke of York’s Royal Military School | 91% |
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Hi John
Thanks for pointing that out. Now corrected.
We have included all the academies in the list so people can see the whole picture.
The table seems to missing a final column so it would help if those falling behind were in bold. Also more enlightening to look at the A-C results using just GCSE and no equivalents and the BACC. Strood slips back to 34% and 0%. Clearly Gove has to give the Academies time to find some language and humanities teachers…
Is it fair to stick the Steiner Academy in this list…as far removed from Government dictats as possible when it comes to its curriculum?
You will probably now see failing academies changing their entrance criteria to try to ‘cherry pick’ the best students from their enlarged catchment areas. This is what Sir Michael Wilshaw (the new HMCI) did when he was Head of the Mossbourne Academy in Hackney- and he delivered outstanding results. Check up on Academy Admission procedures- some of them are quite complicated and convoluted and make interesting reading!