State-fundedAcademy sponsor led · Essex · SS13 3HL
Secondary with sixth form · ages 14–19
The Basildon Upper Academy is a state-funded school in Essex, teaching pupils aged 14 to 19.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | -1.441st percentile | -1.251st percentile | -1.251st percentile | -1.311st percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 26.67th percentile | 29.48th percentile | 30.58th percentile | 28.88th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was -1.44 — well below average, the 1st percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 1.44 of a grade per subject lower than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.
The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs -1.60 to -1.27. That sits entirely below zero, so the below-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has been broadly steady across the years shown.
Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.
| Grade 5+ in English & Maths | 19%15th percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 2.389th percentile |
A school can post a respectable overall score while coasting one group and carrying the average on another. The row that matters to you is the one your own child sits in.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower starters | -1.24 | -1.06 | -1.31 | -1.20 |
| Middle starters | -1.51 | -1.36 | -1.16 | -1.34 |
| Higher starters | -1.77 | -1.27 | -1.42 | -1.49 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 20.5%0th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 47.6%1st percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is above the norm.
Good
A legacy overall effectiveness grade, from an inspection before Ofsted retired the single headline grade in 2025.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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