Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Nottinghamshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry528 applications · 176 places offered · 181 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.0; Nottinghamshire median median 2.4
- 2025 3.1; Nottinghamshire median median 2.3
- 2024 3.1; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2023 3.1; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2022 3.1; Nottinghamshire median median 2.1
- 2021 2.8; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0
- 2020 2.9; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9
- 2019 2.9; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9
- 2018 2.7; Nottinghamshire median median 1.7
- 2017 2.5; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8
- 2016 2.2; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0
- 2015 2.1; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8
- 2014 1.9; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8
- This school
- Nottinghamshire median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 176 | 528 | 3.0 | 181 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2025 | 185 | 574 | 3.1 | 236 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2024 | 179 | 556 | 3.1 | 244 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2023 | 180 | 549 | 3.1 | 217 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2022 | 180 | 560 | 3.1 | 224 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2021 | 180 | 497 | 2.8 | 215 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2020 | 180 | 530 | 2.9 | 241 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2019 | 180 | 528 | 2.9 | 236 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2018 | 180 | 491 | 2.7 | 230 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2017 | 180 | 451 | 2.5 | 230 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2016 | 180 | 402 | 2.2 | 190 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2015 | 180 | 384 | 2.1 | 191 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2014 | 210 | 394 | 1.9 | 210 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 177 | 36.0 | 23% | 40% | – |
| 2024/25 | 179 | 37.1 | 24% | 45% | – |
| 2023/24 | 178 | 36.9 | 33% | 54% | −0.67 |
| 2022/23 | 188 | 39.8 | 29% | 50% | −0.26 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Sherwood Church AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.0applications per place 36.0Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · Nottinghamshire20263.0applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · NottinghamshireGood20232.5applications per place 32.3Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · NottinghamshireGood20232.2applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · NottinghamshireRemains Good20242.1applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · NottinghamshireRemains Good20222.8applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 4.9 km · NottinghamshireGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 45.7Attainment 8
- 6.5 km · NottinghamshireGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 39.3Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · Nottinghamshire20263.2applications per place 39.1Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135583 · 891/6905
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 1,008 on roll
- Free school meals
- 33.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2008
- Replaced
- Sherwood Hall School and Sixth Form College (URN 133267); Sherwood Hall Upper School (URN 122876)
- Address
- Sherwood Hall Road, Mansfield, NG18 2DY
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire · Mansfield
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources