Melior Community Academy, Scunthorpe

In 2026, pupils at Melior Community Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 42.4, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 44.7 in North Lincolnshire and 47 across England.

48% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 46% in North Lincolnshire and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 43.1.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.54: pupils made well below 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 33.8, against 50.3 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 16.5 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 20 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Art and Design, History and Combined Science.

For September 2026 entry, 96 families put Melior Community Academy as their first choice and 176 named it as one of their preferences, for 111 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Melior Community Academy are St Bede's Catholic Voluntary Academy (0.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.8); Outwood Academy Brumby (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 43.4); Frederick Gough School (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42.2); and The St Lawrence Academy (1.4 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 43.5).

Melior Community Academy's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

Melior Community Academy is one of 64 schools run by Delta Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 48.1 in 2024/25.

Of the 159 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 83% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 54% to a further education college, 4% to an apprenticeship and 3% 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.

In 2026, 87 pupils (11.6%) received SEN support and 19 (2.5%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

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

15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Devonshire Road (o/s 53), 180 metres away.

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

In August 2026, police recorded 288 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in North Lincolnshire (41), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Melior Community Academy issued 535 suspensions, 65.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 8 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Melior Community Academy are Priory Lane Community School (0.1 miles), Westcliffe Primary School (0.5 miles), Lincoln Gardens Primary School (0.6 miles) and Bushfield Road Infant School (0.8 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.