State-fundedAcademy converter · Staffordshire · ST8 7AR
Secondary with sixth form · ages 13–18
Biddulph High School is a state-funded school in Staffordshire, teaching pupils aged 13 to 18.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | -0.757th percentile | -0.2531st percentile | -0.6310th percentile | -0.5413th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 40.430th percentile | 46.254th percentile | 45.038th percentile | 43.941st percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was -0.75 — well below average, the 7th percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.75 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 -0.95 to -0.55. That sits entirely below zero, so the below-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has moved around a good deal across the years shown, from -0.75 to -0.25. The three-year average is the steadier number to judge it on.
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 | 32%29th percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 3.5233rd 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 | -0.59 | +0.05 | -0.64 | -0.39 |
| Middle starters | -0.81 | -0.29 | -0.72 | -0.61 |
| Higher starters | -0.68 | -0.27 | -0.41 | -0.45 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 8.8%49th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 25.5%49th 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 below the norm.
School remains Good
The outcome of an ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school's previous grade still holds rather than issuing a new one.
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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