Miltoncross Academy[1]
Secondary · ages 11–16
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 36 35.8 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 35.8 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 26.5% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 2.1% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- -0.60 2023/24[3]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 36.3[5] | 26.9%[5] | ||
| 2023/24 | 34.6[3] | 21.5%[3] | -0.60[3] | |
| 2022/23 | 36[6] | 22%[6] | -0.61[6] | |
| 2021/22 | 36.9[7] | 29%[7] | -0.89[7] |
Destinations after GCSEs
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 88% 2022/23[8]
- School sixth form
- 0% 2022/23[8]
- Sixth-form college
- 1% 2022/23[8]
- Further education college
- 80% 2022/23[8]
- Apprenticeship
- 3% 2022/23[8]
- Employment
- 2% 2022/23[8]
| Left in | Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment | School sixth form | Sixth-form college | Further education college | Apprenticeship | Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 83%[9] | 0%[9] | 1%[9] | 68%[9] | 5%[9] | 8%[9] |
| 2020/21 | 91%[10] | 1%[10] | 0%[10] | 86%[10] | 3%[10] | 1%[10] |
| 2019/20 | 90%[11] | 2%[11] | 48%[11] | 37%[11] | 1%[11] | 2%[11] |
| 2018/19 | 87%[12] | 1%[12] | 52%[12] | 26%[12] | 4%[12] | 4%[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
- 22 Jun 2025[13]
- Personal development
- Good[13]
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement[13]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement[13]
- Safeguarding is effective?
- Yes[13]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement[13]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 2.0 Entry Sept 2026[16]
- Applications (any preference)
- 408 Entry Sept 2026[16]
- First preferences
- 124 Entry Sept 2026[16]
- Places offered
- 200 Entry Sept 2026[16]
- First preferences per place
- 0.6 Entry Sept 2026[16]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 355[16] | 93[16] | 189[16] | 1.9[16] | 0.5[16] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 341[16] | 110[16] | 175[16] | 1.9[16] | 0.6[16] |
| Entry Sept 2023 | 341[16] | 141[16] | 173[16] | 2.0[16] | 0.8[16] |
| Entry Sept 2022 | 265[16] | 128[16] | 177[16] | 1.5[16] | 0.7[16] |
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Academy sponsor led[1]
- Ages
- 11–16[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 1000[1]
- Trust
- THE KEMNAL ACADEMIES TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Portsmouth[1]
- Website
- www.miltoncross-tkat.org[1]
- District
- Portsmouth[17]
- Postcode
- PO3 6RB[1]
- URN
- 140605[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 937 2024/25[18]
- English as an additional language
- 18.7% 2024/25[18]
- SEN support
- 19.9% 2024/25[18]
- EHC plan
- 3.3% 2024/25[18]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 42.6% 2024/25[18]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 76.8%[19]
- Mixed
- 6.6%[19]
- Asian
- 5.1%[19]
- Black
- 7.3%[19]
- Any other ethnic group
- 2.2%[19]
- Unclassified
- 1.9%[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.
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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.
- 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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2017/18. 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: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- 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.