The Aspire Academy

Schools we chose for benchmarking

This is the set of similar schools we've chosen to benchmark this school's pupil and workforce data against.

Choose your own set of schools

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 Aspire Academy (Your chosen school)	Alternative Provision	133	80.5%	48.8%
The Academy of Central Bedfordshire Houghton Regis, LU5 5PX	Alternative Provision	121	96%	70%
The Heights Blackburn Blackburn, BB2 4NW	Alternative Provision	110	100%	33.3%
The Quay School Poole, BH12 4HU	Alternative Provision	100	96.9%	65.6%
Continu Plus Academy Kidderminster, DY11 7FB	Alternative Provision	89	88.2%	61.8%
Reach School Birmingham, B14 7BB	Alternative Provision	53	80%	60%
Bridge Academy Milton Keynes, MK6 5DE	Alternative Provision	186	97.1%	48.6%
OA - Thurrock Tilbury, RM18 7AX	Alternative Provision	74	100%	55.4%
Bromley Trust Alternative Provision Academy Bromley, BR2 9EA	Alternative Provision	118	96.2%	49.1%
Coal Clough Academy Burnley, BB11 4PF	Alternative Provision	155	63.5%	64.2%
The Edge Academy Birmingham, B31 2LQ	Alternative Provision	72	100%	66.7%
College Central Eastbourne, BN22 9RB	Alternative Provision	104	42.3%	59%
The Eaglewood School New Milton, BH25 6SY	Alternative Provision	87	100%	42.4%
Victory Park Academy Southend-On-Sea, SS2 5LG	Alternative Provision	80	62.5%	60.7%
North East Essex Co-operative Academy Colchester, CO2 9BS	Alternative Provision	153	95.4%	62.1%
Mid Essex Co-Operative Academy Maldon, CM9 4NB	Alternative Provision	118	100%	54.2%
The Ladder School Walsall, WS1 1RS	Alternative Provision	104	100%	63.6%
Solihull Alternative Provision Academy Solihull, B90 4LE	Alternative Provision	137	90.2%	72.1%
River Tyne Academy Gateshead Gateshead, NE9 5PQ	Alternative Provision	128	53.6%	67.3%
Horizons Academy Bexley Abbey Wood, SE2 9TA	Alternative Provision	68	72%	48%
Newcastle Bridges School Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE3 3RU	Alternative Provision	129	91.9%	68.9%
The Limes College Sutton, SM1 2SD	Alternative Provision	153	100%	56%
Esteem Valley Academy Ilkeston, DE7 8PF	Alternative Provision	139	99.2%	70.2%
Bradford Alternative Provision Academy Shipley, BD18 3JE	Alternative Provision	72	80.7%	54.4%
Evolve Academy London, SE11 4AX	Alternative Provision	117	71.6%	65.4%
Saffron Valley Collegiate Croydon, CR0 1QH	Alternative Provision	113	100%	43%
The Bridge Academy Lichfield, WS13 6SW	Alternative Provision	61	100%	66.7%
The Hub School Hull, HU5 5YJ	Alternative Provision	154	80.3%	65.4%
Coventry Alternative Provision Academy Coventry, CV2 5BD	Alternative Provision	80	60.6%	66.2%
New Horizons Academy Northampton, NN1 2NE	Alternative Provision	75	100%	40.4%