The Deanery CofE Academy
Secondary · Swindon · SN1 7DA
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 12 September 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
670 pupils · 64% of 1,050 capacity
- School type
- Free schools
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Anglican/Church of England
- Free school meals
- 25.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 32.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.7% of pupils
- Website
- www.dcea.org.uk
- URN
- 151305
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.44 first-choice applications per place104 places offered · 46 first-choice applications · usually has places
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
161 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 7% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.