Options Trent Acres School
Options Trent Acres School is an independent special school in Burton on Trent for boys and girls aged 5 to 19. It has 139 pupils and room for 141.
Alrewas Road, Kings Bromley, Burton on Trent, DE13 7HR01543 473772optionsautism.co.uk/school_home/options-trent-acresMr Phil Petch head of educationAll details
Inspection
This private school is inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate, not Ofsted. Its reports are at isi.net.
Results
GCSE results, summer 2025
29 pupils sat their GCSEs. Here is how they did against every state secondary in England.
All GCSE measures, year by year
| Measure | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2019 | 2018 | Staffordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of Year 11 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Average GCSE scoreAttainment 8 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 0.8 | – | – | – | 44.0 | 46.8 |
| Strong pass in English and mathsGrade 5+ in English and maths | 3% | 9% | 0% | – | – | – | 38% | 46% |
| Standard pass in English and mathsGrade 4+ in English and maths | 14% | 9% | 0% | – | – | – | 61% | 66% |
| Core subjects scoreEBacc average point score | 0.82 | 0.61 | 0.06 | – | – | – | 3.77 | 4.15 |
| Taking the core subjectsEBacc entry | 0% | 0% | 0% | – | – | – | 32% | 41% |
Subjects
Results came out for 3 GCSE subjects in 2025. Each figure is the share of pupils who got a grade 5 or better, next to the average for state secondaries in England.
Subjects that did worse than the England average: Mathematics (20% here, 53% across England), English Language (24% here, 54% across England).
The small number is how many pupils sat each subject. Subjects with fewer than six pupils aren't published.
Every subject against England, 2025
| Subject | Entries | Grades 9 to 7 | Grades 9 to 5 | Grades 9 to 4 | England 9 to 5 | Rank in England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 35 | 0% | 20% | 43% | 53% | – |
| English Language | 17 | 0% | 24% | 24% | 54% | – |
| History | 8 | 0% | 0% | 25% | 52% | – |
In combined science each pupil gets two grades and we count the lower one. Rankings only include state secondaries where 20 or more pupils sat the subject.
Does every child do well here?
A good school does well by every child, not just on average. Each row compares two groups of pupils here. The grey marks show the same two groups across England. None of the gaps is smaller than the gap across England. When a group has fewer than about ten pupils, its figures jump around a lot from year to year.
At GCSE, 2025
Low-income means the child has had free school meals at some point in the last six years. A group's figure isn't published when it has fewer than six pupils.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Staffordshire council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 139 | 136 | 111 | 92 | 52 | 29 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | – | – | – | – | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | – | – | – | – | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 93% |
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Richard Crosse CofE Primary School | Academy | 0.7 miles | 110 | Good 2023 | 87 | Compare |
| Yoxall St Peter's CofE Primary School | Academy | 1.6 miles | 111 | Not inspected | 45 | Compare |
| Hayes Meadow Primary School | Council | 2.5 miles | 187 | Good 2023 | 14 | Compare |
| Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School | Free school | 2.6 miles | 133 | No overall grade 2025 | 90 | Compare |
| St Stephen's Primary School | Council | 2.6 miles | 306 | Good 2022 | 73 | Compare |
| All Saints Church of England Primary and Nursery School | Academy | 2.7 miles | 210 | Requires improvement 2022 | 40 | Compare |
| Henry Chadwick Primary School | Academy | 3.1 miles | 104 | Good 2024 | 40 | Compare |
| The Croft Primary School | Council | 3.4 miles | 165 | Report card 2026 | 43 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Options Trent Acres School a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Options Trent Acres School yet.
How good are Options Trent Acres School's GCSE results?
In summer 2025, 3% of pupils got a grade 5 or better in both English and maths. Across England it was 46%. Its Attainment 8 score, which is the average grade across a pupil's best eight subjects times ten, was 9.6, against 46.8 for England.
How many pupils does Options Trent Acres School have?
139 pupils aged 5 to 19 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 141 places, so it is 99% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Alrewas Road, Kings Bromley, Burton on Trent, DE13 7HR
- Telephone
- 01543 473772
- Website
- www.optionsautism.co.uk/school_home/options-trent-acres
- Head of Education
- Mr Phil Petch
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 5-19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Ward
- Armitage with Handsacre
- Constituency
- Lichfield
- Setting
- Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 18 November 2005 (new provision)
- URN
- 131004 · LAESTAB 8606029 · UKPRN 10017829
Recent changes
- New KS4 results for 2024/25
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- GCSE results: DfE key stage 4 performance tables, 2024/25 final.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.