Academy converter · Secondary
Benfleet · SS7 1RQ · Essex
Ages 11–18
Status: Open
1.9 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 136579
The Appleton School
Academy converter · Benfleet · SS7 5RN
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–19
Pupils
1,597
Local authority
Essex
Age range
Ages 11–19
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–19, in Benfleet, Essex, 1,597 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 18.4%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 136579
Location
- Address
- Croft Road
- Postcode
- SS7 5RN
- Town
- Benfleet
- County
- Essex
- Local authority
- Essex
- District
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,597
- Boys / girls
- 782 / 815
- School capacity
- 1,500
- Capacity fill
- 1,597 / 1,500 (106%)
- Free school meals
- 18.4%
- FSM pupils
- 256
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: COMPASS EDUCATION TRUST LTD
- Academy trust
- COMPASS EDUCATION TRUST LTD
- Sponsor
- The Billericay School
Contact
- Headteacher
- Sarah Cox
- Telephone
- 01268794215
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Standards maintained
Inspection date
2025-01-12
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 41.9
- Progress 8
- -0.6
- English & maths grade 5+
- 41%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 66%
- EBacc entry
- 50%
- EBacc APS
- 3.7