The Vale Academy
Brigg, DN20 8AR · North Lincolnshire · secondary school
1st of 14 secondary schools in North Lincolnshire we can score. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still — 9.2/10 against 893 of them, against 8.3/10 nationally. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.
How this is worked out
| Measure | Percentile | Weight | Adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ofsted | 52 | 35% | 1.81 |
| Grade 5+ English & maths 2024/25 | 64.5 · 87 | 30% | 2.61 |
| Progress 8 2023/24 | 0.45 · 82 | 25% | 2.04 |
| Attainment 8 2024/25 | 51.6 · 76 | 10% | 0.76 |
Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.
Get to know the school
How it's doing. The school is rated Good by Ofsted (inspected 2023-06). In 2024/25, 64.5% of pupils achieved Grade 5 or above in English and maths. Attainment 8 was 51.6, compared to the national median of 44.6. Progress 8 was +0.45 in 2023/24, indicating better progress than pupils nationally who started from the same place. Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still (9.2 out of 10 against similar schools, 8.3 out of 10 against all schools).
Beyond the classroom. Pupils join clubs including photography, film studies, humanities, art, Young Engineers, Enterprise Challenge, cookery, and textiles. Sports include Delta Games and Sports Day. Music and arts offer woodwind, string, brass, junior brass, samba, belleplates, rock bands, and taiko. Trips include WW1 battlefields, Conisbrough Castle, pantomime, a music tour to France, residential field trips, visits to the Deep and Corus, and ecology field trips. An after-school club is available.
Getting in. There are 680 pupils in a school with 806 places, leaving 126 spare places. The school has real spare room, so a place is likely and classes are smaller than it is built for.
Worth asking on a visit. How does the school support pupils in the smaller classes to ensure they remain
Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.
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