Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 19 May 2026
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Swindon Academy on 19 May 2026 using a report card, which grades each area separately and gives no overall grade. The school met Ofsted's safeguarding standards. It was graded Strong standard for leadership and governance, for personal development and wellbeing and for early years; Expected standard for achievement, for curriculum and teaching, for inclusion, for post-16 provision and for attendance and behaviour.
No. Distance only counts when Swindon Academy has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by its academy trust, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.
Swindon Academy had 1,820 pupils aged 2 to 19 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 2,243. It is a mixed school with a sixth form.