The Eastbourne Academy[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 37 37.1 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 37.1 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 25.5% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 4.8% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.88 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	37.7[5]	25%[5]
2023/24	29.1[3]	16.9%[3]	-0.88[3]
2022/23	35.2[6]	21%[6]	-0.52[6]
2021/22	40.1[7]	31%[7]	-0.27[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 86% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 0% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 11% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 73% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 2% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	93%[9]	1%[9]	13%[9]	69%[9]	1%[9]	9%[9]
2020/21	84%[10]	1%[10]	14%[10]	61%[10]	2%[10]	6%[10]
2019/20	89%[11]	0%[11]	10%[11]	75%[11]	1%[11]	1%[11]
2018/19	90%[12]	5%[12]	5%[12]	74%[12]	3%[12]	2%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 29 Apr 2026[13]
Type: Schools with Serious Weaknesses Visit 2[13]
Report published: 15 Jun 2026[13]
Outcomes for legacy monitoring inspections: Leaders and governors/trustees are taking effective action to improve the school but continued work is needed to remove the serious weaknesses designation[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
28 Jan 2025[14]	Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[14]	No overall grade[14]
24 May 2022[15]	S5 Inspection[15]	Requires improvement[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 118 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 61 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 132 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 0.5 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	184[16]	100[16]	167[16]	1.1[16]	0.6[16]
Entry Sept 2024	206[16]	107[16]	171[16]	1.2[16]	0.6[16]
Entry Sept 2023	209[16]	106[16]	161[16]	1.3[16]	0.7[16]
Entry Sept 2022	271[16]	148[16]	177[16]	1.5[16]	0.8[16]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 900[1]
Trust: SWALE ACADEMIES TRUST[1]
Local authority: East Sussex[1]
Website: http://www.theeastbourneacademy.org [1]
District: Eastbourne [17]
Postcode: BN22 9RQ[1]
URN: 136106[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 800 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language: 11.5% 2024/25[18]
SEN support: 14.9% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan: 2.4% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 47.3% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 81.6%[19]
Mixed: 8.2%[19]
Asian: 3.2%[19]
Black: 5%[19]
Any other ethnic group: 0.9%[19]
Unclassified: 1%[19]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2021/22. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.