Secondary
Discovery Academy
Discovery Drive, Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 0GA
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1435 of 1500 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.8
- Local authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Trust
- ALPHA ACADEMIES TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 91.4
- All staff (FTE)
- 134.8
- Pupils per adult
- 10.7
- Pupils
- 1,446
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 April 2024
Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
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.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
January 2019
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
GCSE results
28%
9 points below the Stoke-on-Trent average (37% across 24 schools)
37.4
5.6 below the Stoke-on-Trent average (43.0 across 24 schools)
24th of 25 by our score, among the secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent we can score - 30 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 37.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.01 |
| Entered the EBacc | 24% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 53% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 28% |
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 | 26% |
| 22/23 | 28% |
| 23/24 | 28% |
| 24/25 | 28% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.41 |
| 22/23 | -0.37 |
| 23/24 | -0.65 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 41.0 |
| 22/23 | 38.5 |
| 23/24 | 36.3 |
| 24/25 | 37.4 |
Discovery Drive, Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 0GA
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.
Stoke-on-Trent 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
- Principal
- Jayne Schofield
- Address
- Discovery Drive, Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 0GA
- Telephone
- 01782882100