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Bexhill High Academy[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 46 45.7 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
45.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
50.7% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
8.3% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
-0.59 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 41.7[5] 34.4%[5]
2023/24 40.9[3] 37%[3] -0.59[3]
2022/23 39.9[6] 37%[6] -0.69[6]
2021/22 38.7[7] 30%[7] -0.78[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
88% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
1% 2020/21[9]
Sixth-form college
45% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
37% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
1% 2022/23[8]
Employment
3% 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 90%[10] 47%[10] 32%[10] 2%[10] 8%[10]
2020/21 89%[9] 1%[9] 52%[9] 22%[9] 3%[9] 10%[9]
2019/20 95%[11] 0%[11] 56%[11] 33%[11] 3%[11] 2%[11]
2018/19 91%[12] 1%[12] 48%[12] 36%[12] 2%[12] 1%[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
13 May 2025[13]
Type
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[13]
Report published
18 Jun 2025[13]
Personal development
Good[13]
Quality of education
Good[13]
Behaviour and attitudes
Good[13]
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes[13]
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Good[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
7 Feb 2024[14] Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1[14] No overall grade[14]
22 Nov 2022[15] S5 Inspection[15] Requires improvement[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
1.3 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference)
394 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences
243 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered
308 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place
0.8 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 364[16] 215[16] 279[16] 1.3[16] 0.8[16]
Entry Sept 2024 336[16] 223[16] 293[16] 1.1[16] 0.8[16]
Entry Sept 2023 423[16] 306[16] 295[16] 1.4[16] 1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2022 403[16] 279[16] 308[16] 1.3[16] 0.9[16]

Admissions

Application deadline, 11+ entry
31 Oct 2025 Entry Sept 2026[17]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy converter[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
1500[1]
Trust
MULBERRY SCHOOLS TRUST[1]
Local authority
East Sussex[1]
Website
http://www.mulberrybexhill.org[1]
District
Rother[18]
Postcode
TN39 4BY[1]
URN
138895[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
1454 2024/25[19]
English as an additional language
9.6% 2024/25[19]
SEN support
22.3% 2024/25[19]
EHC plan
1.9% 2024/25[19]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
31.1% 2024/25[19]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
86.7%[20]
Mixed
5.3%[20]
Asian
4.4%[20]
Black
3.1%[20]
Any other ethnic group
0.1%[20]
Unclassified
0.4%[20]

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    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.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. 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.
  17. mulberrybexhill.org: mulberrybexhill.org — Admissions arrangements 26-27. Period 2026-10-16. Licence: copyright-quoted.
    Quote
    The Admissions and Transport Team, PO Box 4, County Hall, St Anne's Crescent, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1SG The closing date for Year 7 applications is 31 October 2025. (p. 3)
  18. Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  19. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  20. 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.