Mulberry Academy St Leonards, St Leonards-on-Sea
Mulberry Academy St Leonards is a secondary school for pupils aged 11 to 16 in St Leonards-on-Sea, part of Mulberry Schools Trust.
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close in 4 days
Deadline Saturday 31 October 2026. Apply to East Sussex (the council where you live). Offers on 1 March.
Data last updated 26 Oct 2026
Mulberry Academy St Leonards in detail
Results
Mulberry Academy St Leonards has no published results of its own yet. Before it took its current form in 2026, as The St Leonards Academy (URN 136400), its pupils had an average Attainment 8 score of 38 and 32% passing English and maths at grade 5 or above in the 2026 GCSE results.
Getting a place at Mulberry Academy St Leonards
Across East Sussex, 86% of families were offered their first-choice secondary school for 2026 entry, and 96% were offered one of the schools they named.
In 2026, families in East Sussex lodged 318 appeals against secondary school offers; 169 reached a hearing and 35 succeeded (20.7% of those heard).
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state secondary schools to Mulberry Academy St Leonards are Lansdowne Children's Centre (1.1 miles); Ark Alexandra Academy (2 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 45.4); St Richard's Catholic College (2.2 miles); and Bexhill High Academy (3.5 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 45.7).
Lansdowne Children's CentreArk Alexandra AcademySt Richard's Catholic CollegeBexhill High Academy
The trust
Mulberry Academy St Leonards is one of 14 schools run by Mulberry Schools Trust, an academy trust.
Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 48.8 in 2024/25.
Who goes there
Mulberry Academy St Leonards has a resourced provision for autism and physical disability: 18 places, 18 pupils on roll.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is West St Leonards Rail Station, about 440 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).
7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is William Road North (opposite), 140 metres away.
The area around the school
In August 2026, police recorded 153 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in East Sussex (65), as is usual near a town centre.
Primary schools nearby
The primary schools closest to Mulberry Academy St Leonards are Mulberry West St Leonards Primary (0.2 miles), St Leonards Church of England Primary Academy (0.4 miles), Robsack Wood Primary School (1 mile) and Christ Church CofE Primary and Nursery Academy (1.1 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.
Mulberry West St Leonards PrimarySt Leonards Church of England Primary AcademyRobsack Wood Primary SchoolChrist Church CofE Primary and Nursery Academy
Sources: DfE school performance data; GIAS establishment links; DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; DfE multi-academy trust performance data; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime
Location
Our estimate from how close the nearest similar schools are and how oversubscribed the council's schools are. It is not a published boundary.
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Mulberry Academy St Leonards has not been inspected by Ofsted since it took its current form in March 2026. Before that, as The St Leonards Academy (URN 136400), it was rated Good in May 2013.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
Resourced provision: Autism, Physical
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
Results at The St Leonards Academy before it took its current form in 2026 (GCSE)
Academic year 2025/26Published for The St Leonards Academy (URN 136400), the school Mulberry Academy St Leonards replaced. There are no figures for Mulberry Academy St Leonards yet, so these are shown separately.
GCSE Results
2025/26 academic year
Progress 8 has declined from -1.08 to -1.22 (2023 to 2024). Attainment 8 has improved from 32.4 to 38.0 (2023 to 2026). GCSE English & Maths 5+ has improved from 28% to 32% (2023 to 2026).
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby secondary schools
Keep up with Mulberry Academy St Leonards
Term dates
Mulberry Academy St Leonards is an academy, so it sets its own term dates: check the school's website. As a guide, see East Sussex's term dates for its community schools.
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Free school transport
Check free transport to Mulberry Academy St Leonards from your postcode →
You apply to the council where you live. Mulberry Academy St Leonards is in East Sussex; for families living there:
Apply to East Sussex for free school transport. Its policy is on the council's website.
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 8
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 3
- Children hurt
- 1
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 8 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 5 slight.
1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot.
1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in East Sussex is 8 (the median across 221 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Commute and house prices
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Applications and offers at The St Leonards Academy before it took its current form in 2026
Published for The St Leonards Academy (URN 136400), the school Mulberry Academy St Leonards replaced. There are no figures for Mulberry Academy St Leonards yet, so these are shown separately.
| Entry year | Places offered | First choices | Named at all | First choices per place | First choices not offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 282 | 258 | 425 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2024 | 292 | 186 | 329 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 2023 | 286 | 213 | 336 | 0.7 | 0 |
| 2022 | 287 | 217 | 358 | 0.8 | 0 |
| 2021 | 297 | 260 | 379 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2020 | 296 | 262 | 448 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2019 | 292 | 323 | 499 | 1.1 | 48 |
| 2018 | 290 | 345 | 543 | 1.2 | 83 |
| 2017 | 290 | 356 | 527 | 1.2 | 88 |
| 2016 | 289 | 305 | 422 | 1.1 | 33 |
| 2015 | 224 | 209 | 306 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 2014 | 215 | 202 | 289 | 0.9 | 0 |
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school-level file). "Places offered" is the number of offers made on national offer day, which can differ from the school's published admission number.
Capacity & Demand
Area Demand Pressure - St Leonards-on-Sea
Based on MHCLG Live Table 122 (2024-25, last 5 years) for St Leonards-on-Sea
Across East Sussex council
Places available
5,496
Applications
4,990
Got 1st preference
86.3%
Got preferred school
95.9%
All secondary applications across East Sussex council (2026/27), not just this school.
Special educational needs provision
Mulberry Academy St Leonards has a resourced provision for autism and physical disability: 18 places, 18 pupils on roll.
Source: Get Information about Schools (GIAS), Department for Education.
Absence at The St Leonards Academy before it took its current form in 20262024/25
Published for The St Leonards Academy (URN 136400), the school Mulberry Academy St Leonards replaced. There are no figures for Mulberry Academy St Leonards yet, so these are shown separately.
11.1%
Overall absence
35.5%
Persistent absence
1,425
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Questions parents ask about Mulberry Academy St Leonards
Are there exam results for Mulberry Academy St Leonards?
Mulberry Academy St Leonards has no published results of its own yet. Before it took its current form in 2026, as The St Leonards Academy (URN 136400), its pupils had an average Attainment 8 score of 38 and 32% passing English and maths at grade 5 or above in the 2026 GCSE results.
What is Mulberry Academy St Leonards's Ofsted rating?
Mulberry Academy St Leonards has not been inspected by Ofsted since it took its current form in March 2026. Before that, as The St Leonards Academy (URN 136400), it was rated Good in May 2013.
What is the catchment area for Mulberry Academy St Leonards?
No fixed boundary. When Mulberry Academy St Leonards is oversubscribed, East Sussex allocates places by its published criteria, usually ending with home-to-school distance.
Does Mulberry Academy St Leonards have specialist SEN provision?
Mulberry Academy St Leonards has a resourced provision for autism and physical disability: 18 places, 18 pupils on roll.
How do I apply to Mulberry Academy St Leonards?
Apply through East Sussex's coordinated admissions process, naming Mulberry Academy St Leonards on your application. Applications for Year 7 places starting in September 2027 close on Saturday 31 October 2026, and offers are made on Monday 1 March 2027.
How many road collisions happen near Mulberry Academy St Leonards?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 8 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 3 serious and 5 slight. 1 child aged 0 to 15 was hurt: 1 on foot. 1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in East Sussex is 8 (the median across 221 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Mulberry Academy St Leonards?
Mulberry Academy St Leonards is at Edinburgh Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 8HH.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)