Essa Academy Overview

Essa Academy is a secondary school located in Bolton and reports to the local authority of Bolton.

Essa Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 990 students but currently enrols 1097 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Essa Academy students range across many different ethnicities with Pakistani being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 46.9% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 63.3% of students at the school.

41.1% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Essa Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities