The Compass Academy

Schools we chose for benchmarking

These are the 2 sets of similar schools we've chosen to benchmark this school's spending against.

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Running cost categories

We've chosen 30 similar schools to benchmark this school against running cost categories, which includes all staffing (excluding premises staff), ICT, consultancy and catering.

How we chose these schools

We chose these schools based on:

• school phase or type
• region
• number of pupils
• pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM)
• pupils with special educational needs (SEN), or proportion of various SEN provisions for special schools

SEN characteristics will be taken into account when comparators are chosen, these include:

• communication and interaction
• cognition and learning
• social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH)
• sensory and/or physical needs

Schools we've chosen

School	Type	Number of pupils	Pupils with special educational needs	Pupils eligible for free school meals
The Compass Academy (Your chosen school)	Alternative Provision	72	100%	74.5%
Links Academy St Albans, AL4 0TZ	Alternative Provision	45	100%	80%
Greys Education Centre Bedford, MK42 7AB	Alternative Provision	87	90.4%	69.2%
Ormiston Bridge Academy London, SW6 6HB	Alternative Provision	56	100%	81.4%
North Cornwall Alternative Provision Academy Bodmin, PL31 1LZ	Alternative Provision	58	100%	64.9%
Penwith Alternative Provision Academy Penzance, TR18 3NX	Alternative Provision	49	100%	78.8%
Ormiston Beachcroft Academy London, NW8 0NW	Alternative Provision	72	100%	68.3%
Ormiston Latimer Academy London, W10 6TT	Alternative Provision	66	100%	81.1%
Phoenix Park Academy Grimsby, DN32 7NQ	Alternative Provision	95	100%	72.3%
Springwell Alternative Academy Barnsley, S71 2AY	Alternative Provision	63	97.2%	72.2%
Sevenhills Academy Grimsby, DN33 1NU	Alternative Provision	40	100%	83.3%
Whitehouse Pupil Referral Unit Kingston-upon-Hull, HU4 7AD	Alternative Provision	41	100%	75%
Snowdon Village Bristol, BS5 9QR	Alternative Provision	78	100%	80%
Forwards Centre Bolton, BL2 5DX	Alternative Provision	51	97.5%	70%
The Venn Boulevard Centre HULL, HU3 3EL	Alternative Provision	60	97.8%	57.8%
The Rowans Chatham, ME5 0LB	Alternative Provision	78	100%	64%
St Matthias Academy Bristol, BS16 2BG	Alternative Provision	63	100%	75.5%
Engage Academy Batley, WF17 5LP	Alternative Provision	28	100%	69.2%
Reach Academy Batley, WF17 0BQ	Alternative Provision	24	100%	60.9%
The Whitley AP Academy Halifax, HX2 9SR	Alternative Provision	75	100%	71.2%
Stansfield Academy Exeter, EX2 7LB	Alternative Provision	63	100%	67.2%
Springwell Alternative Academy Lincoln Lincoln, LN2 4EL	Alternative Provision	58	100%	72.9%
Springwell Alternative Academy Grantham Grantham, NG31 9LD	Alternative Provision	54	100%	69.4%
Links Hatfield Academy Hatfield, AL10 8TJ	Alternative Provision	45	95.2%	71.4%
Cranbury College Reading, RG30 2TS	Alternative Provision	72	100%	74.1%
Newbridge School Worcester, WR5 1DS	Alternative Provision	43	100%	69.2%
Euler Academy Hull, HU8 9HJ	Alternative Provision	56	100%	55.4%
Evolve Academy Wakefield, WF2 8BB	Alternative Provision	55	92.1%	76.3%
Will Adams Academy Gillingham, ME7 2BX	Alternative Provision	51	100%	75%
Enrich Academy Wakefield, WF4 1LL	Alternative Provision	91	83.3%	67.9%

Building cost categories

We've chosen 30 similar schools to benchmark this school against building cost categories, which includes utilities, cleaning and maintenance.

How we chose these schools

We chose these schools based on:

• school phase or type
• region
• gross internal floor area
• average age of buildings
• whether they are a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) school

Schools we've chosen

School	Type	Number of pupils	Gross internal floor area	Average age of buildings
The Compass Academy (Your chosen school)	Alternative Provision	72	Sign in to see
Greys Education Centre Bedford, MK42 7AB	Alternative Provision	87
The Academy of Central Bedfordshire Houghton Regis, LU5 5PX	Alternative Provision	134
The Quay School Poole, BH12 4HU	Alternative Provision	114
Harris Aspire Academy London, SE25 6EJ	Alternative Provision	37
Aspire Academy Kingston-upon-Hull, HU9 5DE	Alternative Provision	170
Phoenix Park Academy Grimsby, DN32 7NQ	Alternative Provision	95
Bromley Trust Alternative Provision Academy Bromley, BR2 9EA	Alternative Provision	123
The Elland Academy Leeds, LS12 6DQ	Alternative Provision	127
St Wilfrid's Academy, Doncaster Doncaster, DN4 6AH	Alternative Provision	123
Sevenhills Academy Grimsby, DN33 1NU	Alternative Provision	40
Meadowbrook College Oxford, OX3 0PG	Alternative Provision	116
The Edge Academy Birmingham, B31 2LQ	Alternative Provision	75
River Tees Secondary Academy Middlesbrough, TS3 8RD	Alternative Provision	108
River Tees Hospital School Middlesbrough, TS3 7EA	Alternative Provision	42
River Tees Primary Academy Middlesbrough, TS3 8NH	Alternative Provision	22
Olive AP Academy - Suffolk Stowmarket, IP14 1SZ	Alternative Provision	34
Olive AP Academy - Havering Hornchurch, RM11 3UR	Alternative Provision	37
North East Essex Co-operative Academy Colchester, CO2 9BS	Alternative Provision	139
Mary Astell Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE5 2LW	Alternative Provision	84
Springwell Alternative Academy Spalding Spalding, PE11 2PN	Alternative Provision	58
The Limes College Sutton, SM1 2SD	Alternative Provision	165
Esteem Valley Academy Ilkeston, DE7 8PF	Alternative Provision	139
The Whitley AP Academy Halifax, HX2 9SR	Alternative Provision	75
Bradford Alternative Provision Academy Shipley, BD18 3JE	Alternative Provision	87
Springwell Alternative Academy Mablethorpe Mablethorpe, LN12 2DF	Alternative Provision	37
The Workplace Bexhill-on-Sea, TN39 4HS	Alternative Provision	84
Bishopton PRU Stockton-on-Tees, TS23 3HB	Alternative Provision	64
Evolve Academy Wakefield, WF2 8BB	Alternative Provision	55
Enrich Academy Wakefield, WF4 1LL	Alternative Provision	91