Watling Academy[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 49 49.1 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 49.1 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 52.8% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 16.1% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 16 May 2023[5]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[5]
- Report published
- 2 Jul 2023[5]
- Personal development
- Outstanding[5]
- Quality of education
- Outstanding[5]
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding[5]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding[5]
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes[5]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding[5]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 2.9 Entry Sept 2026[6]
- Applications (any preference)
- 1006 Entry Sept 2026[6]
- First preferences
- 380 Entry Sept 2026[6]
- Places offered
- 351 Entry Sept 2026[6]
- First preferences per place
- 1.1 Entry Sept 2026[6]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 1093[6] | 375[6] | 356[6] | 3.1[6] | 1.1[6] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 1188[6] | 444[6] | 299[6] | 4.0[6] | 1.5[6] |
| Entry Sept 2023 | 980[6] | 323[6] | 326[6] | 3.0[6] | 1.0[6] |
| Entry Sept 2022 | 910[6] | 279[6] | 352[6] | 2.6[6] | 0.8[6] |
Admissions
- Places (published admission number), 11+ entry
- 300 Entry Sept 2027[7]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 2250[1]
- Trust
- THE ALLIANCE SCHOOLS TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Milton Keynes[1]
- Website
- https://watlingacademy.net/[1]
- District
- Milton Keynes[8]
- Postcode
- MK8 1EP[1]
- URN
- 147860[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 1500 2024/25[9]
- English as an additional language
- 25.3% 2024/25[9]
- SEN support
- 9.9% 2024/25[9]
- EHC plan
- 2.7% 2024/25[9]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 23.9% 2024/25[9]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 48%[10]
- Mixed
- 10.1%[10]
- Asian
- 28%[10]
- Black
- 11.9%[10]
- Any other ethnic group
- 1.7%[10]
- Unclassified
- 0.3%[10]
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.
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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.
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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.
- 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.
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watlingacademy.net: watlingacademy.net — Admissions Arrangements September 2027 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16.
Licence: copyright-quoted.
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For example, Watling Academy has an admission number of 300. (p. 1)
- 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.