The school converted to an academy in 2011. The school’s academy trust is called Sandye Place Academy Trust. The school had been an associate member of a local cluster of schools called the Pinnacle Trust since 2011. This included a local upper school, Sandye Place Academy and six lower schools. The school is a middle deemed secondary school and has pupils from Year 5 to Year 8. It has five forms of entry in Years 6, 7 and 8. Numbers in the current Year 5 are lower than other year groups. A contributing factor is that two local lower schools have extended their age ranges from September 2017 to become primary schools and have admitted pupils to Year 5 for the first time. The proportion of pupils who speak English as an additional language is below average. About a quarter of pupils in the school are disadvantaged. This is in line with the national average. Inspection report: Sandye Place Academy, 13–14 December 2017 Page 8 of 11 The school did not meet the government’s floor standards in 2016, which set the minimum expectations for pupils’ attainment and progress in key stage 2. The school meets the Department for Education’s definition of a coasting school based on key stage 2 academic performance results in 2016.