Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology

State-fundedUniversity technical college · Cambridgeshire · CB2 0SZ

Secondary with sixth form · ages 13–19

Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology is a state-funded school in Cambridgeshire, teaching pupils aged 13 to 19.

GCSE results

Percentiles rank the school against every school in England with a published score.
2023–242022–232021–223-year average
Progress 8+0.4582nd percentile+0.2872nd percentile+0.6189th percentile+0.4582nd percentile
Attainment 858.390th percentile53.280th percentile59.688th percentile57.087th percentile

Progress 8 for 2023–24 was +0.45 — above average, the 82nd percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.45 of a grade per subject higher than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.

The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs +0.14 to +0.76. That sits entirely above zero, so the above-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has moved around a good deal across the years shown, from +0.28 to +0.61. The three-year average is the steadier number to judge it on.

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.

Other GCSE measures, 2023–24.
Grade 5+ in English & Maths68%88th percentile
EBacc average point score4.4370th percentile

Progress 8 by where pupils started

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.

Pupils grouped by their results at the end of primary school.
2023–242022–232021–223-year average
Lower starters-0.09+0.26+0.71+0.29
Middle starters+0.44+0.34+0.75+0.51
Higher starters+0.61+0.16+0.32+0.36

How hard it is to get in

Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.

Attendance

2023–2024 · lower is better. A pupil is persistently absent if they miss a tenth or more of sessions.
Overall absence6.8%81st percentile
Persistently absent pupils19.1%78th 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.

Ofsted

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.

What these figures don't tell you

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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