State-fundedAcademy converter · Cornwall · TR18 3JT
Secondary (no sixth form) · ages 11–16
Mounts Bay Academy is a state-funded school in Cornwall, teaching pupils aged 11 to 16.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | -0.5613th percentile | -0.4020th percentile | -0.3821st percentile | -0.4517th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 41.735th percentile | 45.149th percentile | 47.749th percentile | 44.845th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was -0.56 — well below average, the 13th percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.56 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 -0.76 to -0.36. That sits entirely below zero, so the below-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has fallen in each of the years shown (2021–22 to 2023–24) — worth asking the school about at an open evening.
Attainment here runs well ahead of progress. Pupils leave with strong grades, but made less progress than pupils who started from the same place at other schools. Much of the headline result reflects who the school admits rather than what it added.
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 | 33%32nd percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 3.6638th 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 | -0.32 | -0.09 | -0.24 | -0.22 |
| Middle starters | -0.63 | -0.43 | -0.35 | -0.47 |
| Higher starters | -0.56 | -0.54 | -0.53 | -0.54 |
116 families named this school first for 119 places for 2026 entry — 0.97 first preferences per place.
| 2026 entry | 2025 entry | 2024 entry | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per place | 0.97× | 1.00× | 1.00× |
This is how sought-after a school is, not how good it is — demand tracks house prices and older siblings as much as anything a school does. It is also not your chance of getting in: a school with two applicants per place can still admit everyone living near it, while a less popular school a mile further away turns you down. Distance is usually what decides it, and that depends on your address.
| Overall absence | 10.4%25th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 35.2%13th 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.
Achievement: Needs attention · Behaviour: Expected standard · Leadership: Expected standard
Inspected under Ofsted's 2025 report cards, which replaced the single overall grade with a grade per area on a five-point scale from Exceptional to Urgent improvement.
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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