Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Norfolk
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry469 applications · 168 places offered · 250 named it first
- 2026 2.8; Norfolk median median 1.6
- 2025 2.7; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2024 2.6; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2023 2.2; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2022 2.0; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2021 2.2; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2020 2.1; Norfolk median median 1.5
- 2019 2.2; Norfolk median median 1.5
- 2018 2.2; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2017 1.8; Norfolk median median 1.3
- 2016 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2015 1.6; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2014 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.4
- This school
- Norfolk 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 | 168 | 469 | 2.8 | 250 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2025 | 163 | 444 | 2.7 | 213 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2024 | 167 | 437 | 2.6 | 276 | 1.65 |
| Sep 2023 | 174 | 388 | 2.2 | 240 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2022 | 172 | 336 | 2.0 | 217 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2021 | 178 | 395 | 2.2 | 248 | 1.39 |
| Sep 2020 | 174 | 359 | 2.1 | 198 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2019 | 176 | 381 | 2.2 | 214 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2018 | 180 | 388 | 2.2 | 226 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2017 | 181 | 322 | 1.8 | 226 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2016 | 175 | 268 | 1.5 | 176 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2015 | 171 | 274 | 1.6 | 173 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2014 | 159 | 235 | 1.5 | 151 | 0.95 |
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.) | 172 | 45.7 | 44% | 65% | – |
| 2024/25 | 177 | 47.3 | 45% | 67% | – |
| 2023/24 | 167 | 47.6 | 49% | 72% | +0.51 |
| 2022/23 | 176 | 43.6 | 39% | 59% | +0.09 |
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
- Ormiston Venture AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.8applications per place 45.7Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · NorfolkGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 36.8Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · NorfolkGood20231.8applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 6.0 km · NorfolkRemains Good20241.4applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 8.1 km · SuffolkGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 46.6Attainment 8
- 9.1 km · SuffolkGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- 9.6 km · NorfolkRemains Good20231.6applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 11.2 km · Suffolk20261.4applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 13.3 km · SuffolkGood20231.7applications per place 42.3Attainment 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
- 136187 · 926/6908
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 889 on roll
- Free school meals
- 40.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2010
- Replaced
- Oriel Specialist Mathematics & Computing College (URN 121177)
- Address
- Oriel Avenue, Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, NR31 7JJ
- Local authority
- Norfolk · Great Yarmouth
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources