Ditton Park Academy[1]

Secondary · ages 11–19

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 46 45.7 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL C- C- 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 45.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 42.4% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 8.5% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.06 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	47.4[6]	51.7%[6]
2023/24	49[4]	49.7%[4]	+0.06[4]
2022/23	46.8[7]	46%[7]	-0.05[7]
2021/22	51.5[8]	50%[8]	+0.20[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C- 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 5.7% 2024/25[3]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	C-[9]	3.6%[9]
2022/23	C-[10]	5.3%[10]
2021/22	C[11]	8.6%[11]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[12]
School sixth form: 63% 2022/23[12]
Sixth-form college: 0% 2022/23[12]
Further education college: 27% 2022/23[12]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[12]
Employment: 1% 2022/23[12]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	98%[13]	65%[13]	0%[13]	30%[13]	0%[13]	2%[13]
2020/21	94%[14]	61%[14]	1%[14]	30%[14]	1%[14]	1%[14]
2019/20	90%[15]	59%[15]	0%[15]	29%[15]	1%[15]	1%[15]
2018/19	91%[16]	57%[16]	0%[16]	28%[16]	3%[16]	2%[16]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 86% 2022/23[17]
UK higher education: 66% 2022/23[17]
Education: 68% 2022/23[17]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[17]
Employment: 14% 2022/23[17]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	90%[18]	74%[18]	75%[18]	2%[18]	13%[18]
2020/21	92%[19]	73%[19]	78%[19]	0%[19]	14%[19]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 85% 2021/22[20]
Top third of most selective universities: 9% 2021/22[20]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities
2020/21	85%[21]	16%[21]

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 Mar 2023[22]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[22]
Report published: 24 May 2023[22]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[22]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[22]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
20 Jun 2017[23]	S5 Inspection[23]	Good[23]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.9 Entry Sept 2026[24]
Applications (any preference): 674 Entry Sept 2026[24]
First preferences: 127 Entry Sept 2026[24]
Places offered: 173 Entry Sept 2026[24]
First preferences per place: 0.7 Entry Sept 2026[24]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	768[24]	166[24]	173[24]	4.4[24]	1.0[24]
Entry Sept 2024	814[24]	182[24]	178[24]	4.6[24]	1.0[24]
Entry Sept 2023	765[24]	138[24]	170[24]	4.5[24]	0.8[24]
Entry Sept 2022	768[24]	168[24]	179[24]	4.3[24]	0.9[24]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–19[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Capacity: 1131[1]
Trust: SASH EDUCATION TRUST[1]
Local authority: Slough[1]
Website: http://www.dittonparkacademy.co.uk/[1]
District: Slough [25]
Postcode: SL3 7UX[1]
URN: 141009[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1125 2024/25[26]
English as an additional language: 46.7% 2024/25[26]
SEN support: 11.2% 2024/25[26]
EHC plan: 4.1% 2024/25[26]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 24.9% 2024/25[26]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 13.3%[27]
Mixed: 16.8%[27]
Asian: 55.6%[27]
Black: 7.4%[27]
Any other ethnic group: 6%[27]
Unclassified: 0.9%[27]

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

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