Secondary
The Appleton School
Croft Road, Benfleet, SS7 5RN
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1597 of 1500 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
- Local authority
- Essex
- Sixth form
- Yes
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 79.8
- All staff (FTE)
- 108.2
- Pupils per adult
- 14.8
- Pupils
- 1,602
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected November 2024
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
32%
39.6
2nd of 3 by our score, among the secondary schools in Benfleet we can score - see them all. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 39.6 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.45 |
| Entered the EBacc | 39% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 58% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 32% |
| A level average points per entry | 35.64 |
| A level students | 65 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 38% |
| 22/23 | 47% |
| 23/24 | 41% |
| 24/25 | 32% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 34.1 |
| 22/23 | 28.5 |
| 23/24 | 29.6 |
| 24/25 | 35.6 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.88 |
| 22/23 | -0.28 |
| 23/24 | -0.63 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 43.7 |
| 22/23 | 47.0 |
| 23/24 | 41.9 |
| 24/25 | 39.6 |
Croft Road, Benfleet, SS7 5RN
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Essex admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Sarah Cox
- Address
- Croft Road, Benfleet, SS7 5RN
- Telephone
- 01268794215