Beacon Hill Community School is a mixed local-authority maintained secondary school in Wigton, Cumberland Council, teaching 135 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted graded quality of education as Requires improvement at its most recent inspection in June 2025. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 28.8 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 3 September 2025 to 17 July 2026.

Ofsted inspection

The latest published Ofsted judgement for Beacon Hill Community School.

Latest inspection
Graded inspection No single overall grade (Sept 2024+)

From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.

Quality of educationRequires improvement
Behaviour & attitudesGood
Personal developmentGood
Leadership & managementRequires improvement
S5 Inspection · Inspected 24 Jun 2025 · Published 9 Sep 2025
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Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate

Term dates & holidays 2025–2026

Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Beacon Hill Community School.

Beacon Hill Community School term dates calendar 2025–2026
Official term-dates calendar · 2025–2026 · source

Interactive Calendar

September 2025
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
  • 3–30 Autumn Term 2025
October 2025
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–31 Autumn Term 2025
  • 27–31 Autumn Half Term Holiday
November 2025
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
  • 1–30 Autumn Term 2025
December 2025
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–19 Autumn Term 2025
  • 22–31 Christmas Holiday
  • 25 Christmas Day
  • 26 Boxing Day
January 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–2 Christmas Holiday
  • 1 New Year's Day
  • 7–31 Spring Term 2026
February 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
  • 1–28 Spring Term 2026
  • 16–20 Spring Half Term Holiday
March 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–27 Spring Term 2026
  • 30–31 Easter Holiday
April 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
  • 1–10 Easter Holiday
  • 3 Good Friday
  • 6 Easter Monday
  • 13–30 Summer Term 2026
May 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–31 Summer Term 2026
  • 4 Early May Bank Holiday
  • 25–29 Summer Half Term Holiday
  • 25 Spring Bank Holiday
June 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
  • 1–30 Summer Term 2026
July 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–17 Summer Term 2026
  • 20–31 Summer Holiday
August 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–31 Summer Holiday
  • 31 Summer Bank Holiday
September 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
  • 1–2 Summer Holiday

Key dates (2025–2026)

  • Autumn Term 2025 3 September 2025 - 19 December 2025 Term
  • Autumn Half Term Holiday 27 October 2025 - 31 October 2025 Holiday
  • Spring Term 2026 7 January 2026 - 27 March 2026 Term
  • Spring Half Term Holiday 16 February 2026 - 20 February 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Term 2026 13 April 2026 - 17 July 2026 Term
  • Summer Half Term Holiday 25 May 2026 - 29 May 2026 Holiday
  • Christmas Holiday 22 December 2025 - 2 January 2026 Holiday
  • Easter Holiday 30 March 2026 - 10 April 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Holiday 20 July 2026 - 2 September 2026 Holiday
  • New Year's Day 1 January 2026 Event
  • Good Friday 3 April 2026 Event
  • Easter Monday 6 April 2026 Holiday
  • Early May Bank Holiday 4 May 2026 Holiday
  • Spring Bank Holiday 25 May 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Bank Holiday 31 August 2026 Holiday
  • Christmas Day 25 December 2025 Holiday
  • Boxing Day 26 December 2025 Event

Exam results & performance

DfE performance tables Official results, 2024–2025 GOV.UK ↗
28.8 Attainment 8 England 46.1
13.3% Grade 5+ English & maths England 45.4%
22% Persistent absence England 17.8%

The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Beacon Hill Community School with Cumberland Council and England.

Key stage 4 (GCSE) 28.8 Attainment 8 score

Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.

This school Cumberland Council England

Attainment 8 score · Average across 8 GCSEs, out of 90 28.8
Cumberland Council 42.3 England 46.1 -17.3 vs England
Grade 5+ in English & maths · A strong pass 13.3%
Cumberland Council 36.5% England 45.4% -32.1 vs England
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils 31.7
Cumberland Council 31.5 England 34.9 -3.2 vs England
Disadvantage gap · Attainment 8 points; smaller is better -4.6
Cumberland Council 14.3 England 15.5 -20.1 vs England
Disadvantaged pupils in the year group · Context for the scores above 36.7%
Cumberland Council 24.2% England 28.2%
Pupils in the year group · Small cohorts swing wildly 30
Attendance 22% Persistently absent pupils

Absence across the whole school year.

This school Cumberland Council England

Persistently absent pupils · Missed 10%+ of sessions; lower is better 22%
Cumberland Council 16.2% England 17.8% +4.2 vs England
Overall absence · Lower is better 9.6%
Cumberland Council 6.5% England 6.8% +2.8 vs England
What pupils do after GCSEs 83% In education, apprenticeship or work

Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.

This school Cumberland Council England

In education, apprenticeship or work 83%
Cumberland Council 91% England 92% -9 vs England
Same, for disadvantaged pupils 75%
Cumberland Council 79% England 83% -8 vs England
About this data source & caveats

Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.

We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.

Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Beacon Hill Community School. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.

Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Location & catchment area

Indicative catchment Other secondary schools

Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Beacon Hill Community School than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.