Academies Trust took over the school and renamed it Dixons Unity Academy in October 2018. Academic standards Cells coloured red represent 5GCSE A*-C (including English and Maths) results which are below the minimum standards expected by the Government floor target, or OFSTED grades which indicate that standards need to be improved or Department for Education letters stating that standards are 'unacceptably low.' Cells in darker grey indicate periods of time when the Academy was not part of the Academies Enterprise Trust network of academies. In January 2013 it was noted that Swallow Hill was amongst three schools in Leeds which achieved exam results which placed it in the lowest achieving 40 schools nationally. In the city of Leeds as a whole 55% of pupils achieved 5 GCSEs at grades A*-C (including English and Maths) but at Swallow Hill it was only 28%. The BBC also ranked the school 37th out of 38 local schools for both GCSE Value Added and for Sixth Form results Once Swallow Hill Community College became an AET Academy, standards fell, as recorded by the official league table data above. Swallow Hill records its examination results in a more optimistic way than the official government league tables do. So, commenting on the 2014 results, the Academy stated "Students at Swallow Hill achieved the academy’s best ever results this Summer despite a national picture which saw many schools’ results dip." The official Government league tables (as in the table above) record a drop in results of 3% in 2014. On 6 January 2015 Paul Smith, the DFE Regional Schools' Commissioner wrote to AET expressing concerns about standards at Swallow Hill Community College, especially as recorded in the 2014 exam results. He stated On 3 February 2015 OFSTED inspected the Academy and graded it as overall Inadequate because of poor achievement. OFSTED stated The 2015 examination results, as indicated in the table above, showed further decline in the headline figure of students achieving 5GCSEs A-C (including English and Maths). Commenting on the 2015 exam results the Academy initially declined to release exam results at all, and posted the following statement on its website, which was still up in December 2015, The 2015 initial reports of A level results indicated that 13 students had passed qualifications at the Academy. Official league tables show that Sixth Form students achieved on average an E grade for each qualification. Extra Curricular matters