State-fundedUniversity technical college · Coventry · CV4 8DY
Secondary with sixth form · ages 14–19
WMG Academy for Young Engineers is a state-funded school in Coventry, teaching pupils aged 14 to 19.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | -0.4419th percentile | -0.679th percentile | -0.5912th percentile | -0.5711th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 44.547th percentile | 41.533rd percentile | 44.636th percentile | 43.539th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was -0.44 — below average, the 19th percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.44 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 -0.70 to -0.18. 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 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 | 38%40th percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 3.4530th 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 | -0.17 | -0.42 | -0.61 | -0.40 |
| Middle starters | -0.35 | -0.64 | -0.68 | -0.56 |
| Higher starters | -0.83 | -0.96 | -0.25 | -0.68 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 11.7%13th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 37.6%9th 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.
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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