Highfield Leadership Academy
About the school
Highfield Leadership Academy is an open secondary school in Blackpool.
Latest Ofsted inspection
Published Ofsted information, current as at 31 July 2026. Inspection outcomes are not performance rankings.
- Latest inspection
- 12 March 2024
- Published
- 7 May 2024
- Inspection type
- Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1
- Latest outcome
- Requires improvement
Previous inspection framework
These judgements are retained by Ofsted from an earlier inspection framework.
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding
Yes
Early years
Not applicable
Sixth form
Not applicable
Results and school context
GCSE and key stage 4
Attainment 8
- School
- 30
- Blackpool
- 37
- England
- 46.1
Progress 8
The DfE has not published this measure for 2024/25.
- School
- N/A
- Blackpool
- N/A
- England
- N/A
English and maths grade 5+
- School
- 19.60%
- Blackpool
- 30.30%
- England
- 45.40%
English and maths grade 4+
- School
- 42.10%
- Blackpool
- 51.20%
- England
- 64.80%
EBacc entry
- School
- 25.20%
- Blackpool
- 17.80%
- England
- 40.50%
EBacc average point score
- School
- 2.67
- Blackpool
- 3.16
- England
- 4.09
Pupil context and attendance
DfE context data for 2024/25. These characteristics provide context and are not quality ratings.
Pupils on roll
681
Girls
50.07%
Boys
49.93%
SEN support
21.00%
Education, health and care plan
2.50%
English as an additional language
11.20%
Eligible for free school meals in the past six years
55.95%
Overall absence
16.4
Persistent absence
46.94
Pupil destinations
DfE destination measures from the 2024/25 release. These outcomes are published after a time lag.
After Key Stage 4
Cohort
85
Sustained education or employment
78%
Education
72%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
4%
Not sustained
18%