Mayflower High School
Stock Road, Billericay, CM12 0RT
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Trust
- MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL
- Headteacher
- Mr Damian Lee
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Basildon and Billericay
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 1,700
- Pupils on roll
- 1,616
- URN
- 137048
- Local authority
- Essex
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01277623171
About this school
Mayflower High School is a secondary academy in Billericay. It teaches children aged 11 to 18 and has 1,616 pupils on roll.
Ofsted has inspected Mayflower High School, and its latest judgement is set out below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. Each area of the school's work is graded on a five-point scale, and safeguarding is judged separately.
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Post-16 provision
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding
- Met
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 261 | 263 | 269 |
| Attainment 8 score | 50.3 | 48.2 | 47.6 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.09 -0.27 to +0.08 | -0.19 -0.36 to -0.01 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 54% | 49% | 46.5% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 75% | 71.1% | 72.9% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 70% | 62% | 68.8% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.4 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Mayflower High School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Essex average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 50.3 | 43.8 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 48.2 | 41.6 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 47.6 | 42.2 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 9% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 7.1% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.4% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 1,672 |
| 2023/24 | 1,632 |
| 2024/25 | 1,620 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Mayflower High School compares
Mayflower High School ranked 25th of 78 secondary schools in Essex for Attainment 8 in 2024/25. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 68% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 32% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 47.6 | 6.4% | 10.6% | 1,616 | — |
| The Billericay School | 50 | 8.8% | 18.1% | 1,729 | 1.5 miles |
| Anglo European School | 55.6 | 7.1% | 9.7% | 1,533 | 3.1 miles |
| St Martin's School Brentwood | 45.9 | 7.1% | 13.4% | 1,794 | 3.9 miles |
| The Bromfords School | 35.9 | 8.8% | 26% | 1,181 | 4.0 miles |
| The James Hornsby School | 38.9 | 8.9% | 48.2% | 1,040 | 4.3 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
Inspection history
-
Graded inspection report9 December 2025
- 28 March 2023
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 10.56%
- English as an additional language
- 5.9%
- Overall absence
- 6.43%
- Persistent absence
- 17.32%
Location
Nearby schools
-
The Billericay School1.5 miles
Secondary · Billericay
-
Anglo European School3.1 miles
Secondary · Ingatestone
-
St Martin's School Brentwood3.9 miles
Secondary · Brentwood
-
The Bromfords School4.0 miles
Secondary · Wickford
-
The James Hornsby School4.3 miles
Secondary · Basildon
Other schools in Billericay
- The Billericay School Secondary
- Brightside Primary School Primary
- Buttsbury Primary School Primary
- Crays Hill Primary School Primary
- Downham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Primary
- Quilters Infant School Primary
- Quilters Junior School Primary
- South Green Infant School Primary
- South Green Junior School Primary
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School Primary
- Sunnymede Primary School Primary
- Ramsden Hall Academy Academies
Common questions
- What ages does Mayflower High School teach?
- Mayflower High School teaches children aged 11 to 18. It is a secondary school in Billericay.
- Who is the headteacher of Mayflower High School?
- The headteacher of Mayflower High School is Mr Damian Lee, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- Has Mayflower High School been inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Mayflower High School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How many pupils are at Mayflower High School?
- Mayflower High School has 1,616 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 18.
- Is Mayflower High School full?
- Mayflower High School has capacity for 1,700 pupils and 1,616 on roll (95%), so it is close to full. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Mayflower High School a faith school?
- No. Mayflower High School has no designated religious character.
- Is Mayflower High School a selective school?
- No. Mayflower High School is recorded as non-selective in the schools register.
- Is Mayflower High School part of an academy trust?
- Mayflower High School is part of MAYFLOWER HIGH SCHOOL. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- What SEN provision does Mayflower High School have?
- The schools register lists Mayflower High School's special educational needs provision as: SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty. Contact the school to discuss how it would support a particular child.
- How have Mayflower High School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 50.3 in 2022/23 and 47.6 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Mayflower High School compare with other schools in Essex?
- Mayflower High School ranked 25th of 78 secondary schools in Essex for Attainment 8. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 68% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 32% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Mayflower High School's absence rate?
- Mayflower High School's overall absence rate is 6.4% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Mayflower High School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Mayflower High School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 1 July 2026.