Buxton Community School

College Road, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK17 9EA

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About this school

Buxton Community School is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in High Peak, Derbyshire. The school has 1,031 pupils enrolled. Ofsted: Good (graded inspection, 29 January 2020). Last inspected 29 January 2020. The Headteacher is Samantha Jones. The school is administered by Derbyshire local authority. It belongs to EMBARK MULTI ACADEMY TRUST. It opened in 1 June 2023.

School details

Headteacher

Samantha Jones

Trust

EMBARK MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

Local authority

Derbyshire

Gender

Mixed

URN

149645

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Buxton Community School are handled by the school or the local authority (Derbyshire). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

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