Beacon Hill Community School
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.
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.
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.
- 3–30 Autumn Term 2025
- 1–31 Autumn Term 2025
- 27–31 Autumn Half Term Holiday
- 1–30 Autumn Term 2025
- 1–19 Autumn Term 2025
- 22–31 Christmas Holiday
- 25 Christmas Day
- 26 Boxing Day
- 1–2 Christmas Holiday
- 1 New Year's Day
- 7–31 Spring Term 2026
- 1–28 Spring Term 2026
- 16–20 Spring Half Term Holiday
- 1–27 Spring Term 2026
- 30–31 Easter Holiday
- 1–10 Easter Holiday
- 3 Good Friday
- 6 Easter Monday
- 13–30 Summer Term 2026
- 1–31 Summer Term 2026
- 4 Early May Bank Holiday
- 25–29 Summer Half Term Holiday
- 25 Spring Bank Holiday
- 1–30 Summer Term 2026
- 1–17 Summer Term 2026
- 20–31 Summer Holiday
- 1–31 Summer Holiday
- 31 Summer Bank Holiday
- 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
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
Attendance 22% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Cumberland Council 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
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 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.