The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

The Eastbourne Academy

URN 136106 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · East Sussex

Brodrick Road, Eastbourne, BN22 9RQ

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

Ofsted category of concern: Serious weaknesses

At its inspection on 28 January 2025 (Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework)), this school was placed in the category serious weaknesses.

Ofsted judged that one or more key areas of the school's performance needed significant improvement, while leaders had the capacity to improve. This category was later renamed “requires significant improvement”.

This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 100 families named The Eastbourne Academy as their first preference, and the school made 167 offers.

That is 0.60 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 9% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 9% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.84 in 2021–2022 and 0.61 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 100 184 167 0.60
2024 107 206 171 0.63
2023 106 209 161 0.66
2022 148 271 177 0.84
2021 149 252 177 0.84
2020 133 272 178 0.75
2019 116 243 127 0.91
2018 132 234 140 0.94
2017 123 213 141 0.87
2016 82 159 88 0.93
2015 114 165 115 0.99
2014 118 178 123 0.96

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 28 January 2025

Category of concern: Serious weaknesses

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Inadequate

Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate

Personal development: Requires improvement

Leadership and management: Inadequate

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 37.70 - 51.3% 10.0%
2023/24 29.10 -0.88
likely between -1.11 and -0.66		 31.8% 5.8%
2022/23 35.20 -0.52
likely between -0.75 and -0.30		 49.1% 7.0%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 61.6 50.4 6.2 5.0 18.2%
2023/24 60.6 34.4 14.0 12.2 43.2%
2022/23 60.5 37.9 12.7 9.9 37.4%
2021/22 59.7 44.4 4.8 10.5 25.6%
2020/21 53.4 44.9 3.8 4.7 15.9%
2019/20 48.3 43.3 2.0 3.0 10.4%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from The Eastbourne Academy.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.