Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Derbyshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry202 applications · 165 places offered · 158 named it first
- 2026 1.2; Derbyshire median median 1.7
- 2025 1.3; Derbyshire median median 1.7
- 2024 1.4; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2023 1.5; Derbyshire median median 1.9
- 2022 1.5; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2021 1.5; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2020 1.5; Derbyshire median median 2.0
- 2019 1.6; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2018 1.5; Derbyshire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.5; Derbyshire median median 2.0
- 2016 1.4; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2015 1.4; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- 2014 1.4; Derbyshire median median 1.8
- This school
- Derbyshire 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 | 165 | 202 | 1.2 | 158 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2025 | 163 | 207 | 1.3 | 160 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2024 | 163 | 231 | 1.4 | 163 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 168 | 248 | 1.5 | 177 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2022 | 171 | 255 | 1.5 | 175 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2021 | 162 | 241 | 1.5 | 157 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2020 | 164 | 252 | 1.5 | 162 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2019 | 167 | 274 | 1.6 | 187 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2018 | 168 | 252 | 1.5 | 163 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2017 | 169 | 253 | 1.5 | 187 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2016 | 160 | 218 | 1.4 | 156 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2015 | 163 | 234 | 1.4 | 175 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2014 | 139 | 191 | 1.4 | 138 | 0.99 |
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.) | 153 | 38.4 | 26% | 53% | – |
| 2024/25 | 153 | 39.5 | 31% | 52% | – |
| 2023/24 | 168 | 39.6 | 40% | 61% | −0.34 |
| 2022/23 | 157 | 38.8 | 36% | 57% | −0.44 |
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
- Shirebrook AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.2applications per place 38.4Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · Derbyshire20251.9applications per place 42.9Attainment 8
- 5.1 km · NottinghamshireRemains Good20242.1applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · NottinghamshireGood20231.6applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · NottinghamshireGood20232.5applications per place 32.3Attainment 8
- 6.5 km · NottinghamshireRemains Good20222.8applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · Nottinghamshire20263.0applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 7.9 km · NottinghamshireGraded · no overall grade20253.0applications per place 36.0Attainment 8
- 8.1 km · DerbyshireGood20231.3applications per place 37.7Attainment 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
- 136127 · 830/6905
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 850 pupils · 824 on roll
- Free school meals
- 46.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2010
- Replaced
- Shirebrook School (URN 112965)
- Address
- Common Lane, Shirebrook, Mansfield, NG20 8QF
- Local authority
- Derbyshire · Bolsover
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources