UK Schools
Hope Academy
Hope Academy is a mixed secondary academy in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens Council, teaching 1,235 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted graded quality of education as Requires improvement at its most recent inspection in November 2024. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 43.8 (England 46.1). Term dates and holidays for 2025–2026 are listed below.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Hope Academy.
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 Hope Academy.
Key dates (2025–2026)
- Staff Inset Day Monday 1st September 2025 Inset Day
- Staff Inset Day Tuesday 2nd September 2025 Inset Day
- Academy opens for Year 7 only Wednesday 3rd September 2025 Event
- Academy opens for all students Thursday 4th September 2025 Event
- Academy closes for half term holidays Friday 24th October 2025 Holiday
- Staff Inset Day Monday 3rd November 2025 Inset Day
- Academy reopens Tuesday 4th November 2025 Event
- Academy closes for the Christmas Break Friday 19th December 2025 Holiday
- Staff Inset Day Monday 5th January 2026 Inset Day
- Academy reopens Tuesday 6th January 2026 Event
- Academy closes for half term Friday 13th February 2026 Holiday
- Staff Inset Day Monday 23rd February 2026 Inset Day
- Academy reopens Tuesday 24th February 2026 Event
- Academy closes for Easter break Friday 27th March 2026 Holiday
- Academy reopens Monday 13th April 2026 Event
- May Day Bank Holiday Monday 4th May 2026 Holiday
- Academy closes for half term Friday 22nd May 2026 Holiday
- Academy reopens Monday 1st June 2026 Event
- Academy closes for Summer Break Friday 17th July 2026 Holiday
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Hope Academy with St Helens Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 43.8 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school St Helens Council England
Attendance 23.2% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school St Helens Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 87% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school St Helens 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 Hope Academy. 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 Hope Academy 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.