Secondary
The Thomas Lord Audley School
Monkwick Avenue, Monkwick, Colchester, CO2 8NJ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 940 of 840 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.6
- Local authority
- Essex
- Trust
- THE SIGMA TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 57.5
- All staff (FTE)
- 87.0
- Pupils per adult
- 10.3
- Pupils
- 894
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 March 2025
Standards maintained
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
42%
10 points below the Colchester average (52% across 14 schools)
42.3
8.5 below the Colchester average (50.8 across 14 schools)
14th of 14 by our score, among the secondary schools in Colchester we can score - 16 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 | 42.3 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.51 |
| Entered the EBacc | 14% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 61% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 42% |
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 | 29% |
| 22/23 | 34% |
| 23/24 | 38% |
| 24/25 | 42% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.62 |
| 22/23 | -0.36 |
| 23/24 | -0.13 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 37.9 |
| 22/23 | 38.8 |
| 23/24 | 40.5 |
| 24/25 | 42.3 |
Monkwick Avenue, Monkwick, Colchester, CO2 8NJ
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
- Simon Essex
- Address
- Monkwick Avenue, Monkwick, Colchester, CO2 8NJ
- Telephone
- 01206547911