Beamont Collegiate Academy, Warrington

In 2026, pupils at Beamont Collegiate Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 47.7 in Warrington and 47 across England.

47% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 48% in Warrington and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 45.8.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.16: pupils made above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 37.6, against 52.1 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 14.5 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 23 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and French.

For September 2026 entry, 208 families put Beamont Collegiate Academy as their first choice and 328 named it as one of their preferences, for 180 places offered. That is 1.2 first choices for every place. 32 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Beamont Collegiate Academy are Aldridge UTC Warrington (0.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 30.3); Padgate Academy (1.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 41.6); Cardinal Newman Catholic High School (1.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.1); and St Gregory's Catholic High School (1.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 53.8).

Beamont Collegiate Academy's 2026 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Beamont Collegiate Academy is one of 14 schools run by The Challenge Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.3 in 2024/25.

Of the 170 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 74% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 39% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 4% into work.

47.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

Beamont Collegiate Academy had 68 teachers in 2026, one for every 13 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical secondary school, at about one for every 17.

The nearest railway station is Warrington Central Rail Station, about 1.1 miles away in a straight line.

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Tetleys Club (outside), 110 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Beamont Collegiate Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 338 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, public order offences and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Warrington (96), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Beamont Collegiate Academy issued 109 suspensions, 12.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Beamont Collegiate Academy are St Margaret's Church of England Primary School (0.2 miles), Meadowside Community Primary and Nursery School (0.3 miles), Warrington St Ann's Church of England Primary Academy (0.3 miles) and St Stephen's Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.