Bolder Academy[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 52 51.7 2025/26[2]
- A-level average grade
- AL B- B- 2024/25[3]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 51.7 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 51.2% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 16.5% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- +0.36 2023/24[4]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[5]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[5]
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 45.6[6] | 40.8%[6] | ||
| 2023/24 | 49.3[4] | 44.4%[4] | +0.36[4] | |
| 2022/23 | 50.6[7] | 50%[7] | +0.30[7] |
A level (16–18)
- A-level average grade
- B- 2024/25[3]
- AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
- 15.4% 2024/25[3]
Destinations after GCSEs
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 92% 2022/23[8]
- School sixth form
- 46% 2022/23[8]
- Sixth-form college
- 0% 2022/23[8]
- Further education college
- 45% 2022/23[8]
- Apprenticeship
- 1% 2022/23[8]
- Employment
- 0% 2022/23[8]
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
- 7 Dec 2022[9]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[9]
- Report published
- 31 Jan 2023[9]
- Personal development
- Outstanding[9]
- Quality of education
- Good[9]
- Overall effectiveness
- Good[9]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good[9]
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes[9]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good[9]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 2.7 Entry Sept 2026[10]
- Applications (any preference)
- 449 Entry Sept 2026[10]
- First preferences
- 114 Entry Sept 2026[10]
- Places offered
- 167 Entry Sept 2026[10]
- First preferences per place
- 0.7 Entry Sept 2026[10]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 537[10] | 128[10] | 173[10] | 3.1[10] | 0.7[10] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 655[10] | 134[10] | 175[10] | 3.7[10] | 0.8[10] |
| Entry Sept 2023 | 646[10] | 157[10] | 178[10] | 3.6[10] | 0.9[10] |
| Entry Sept 2022 | 743[10] | 181[10] | 175[10] | 4.2[10] | 1.0[10] |
Admissions
- Places (published admission number)
- 180 Entry Sept 2027[11]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Capacity
- 1260[1]
- Trust
- BOLDER ACADEMY TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Hounslow[1]
- Website
- www.bolderacademy.co.uk[1]
- District
- Hounslow[12]
- Postcode
- TW7 5DB[1]
- URN
- 145866[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 955 2024/25[13]
- English as an additional language
- 36.8% 2024/25[13]
- SEN support
- 12.2% 2024/25[13]
- EHC plan
- 2.2% 2024/25[13]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 31.8% 2024/25[13]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 39.5%[14]
- Mixed
- 20.9%[14]
- Asian
- 17.5%[14]
- Black
- 12.3%[14]
- Any other ethnic group
- 9.5%[14]
- Unclassified
- 0.3%[14]
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: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2024/25, final. 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.
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 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. 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.
-
cms-site-files.reactfiles.co.uk: cms-site-files.reactfiles.co.uk — Admissions Policy 2027-2028 updated March 2026 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16.
Licence: copyright-quoted.
Quote
The student admission number increased to 180 in 2019, which will continue to be the pupil admission number in subsequent years. (p. 3)
- 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.
- 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.