Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in West Northamptonshire
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 | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry981 applications · 218 places offered · 571 named it first
- 2026 4.5; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2025 4.1; West Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2024 4.5; West Northamptonshire median median 1.6
- 2023 4.0; West Northamptonshire median median 1.7
- 2022 4.2; West Northamptonshire median median 1.7
- 2021 4.1; West Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2020 4.4; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2019 4.8; West Northamptonshire median median 1.6
- 2018 4.6; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2017 4.2; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2016 5.0; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2015 4.2; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2014 4.2; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- This school
- West Northamptonshire 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 | 218 | 981 | 4.5 | 571 | 2.62 |
| Sep 2025 | 220 | 899 | 4.1 | 553 | 2.51 |
| Sep 2024 | 211 | 950 | 4.5 | 580 | 2.75 |
| Sep 2023 | 211 | 846 | 4.0 | 496 | 2.35 |
| Sep 2022 | 208 | 865 | 4.2 | 523 | 2.51 |
| Sep 2021 | 206 | 846 | 4.1 | 528 | 2.56 |
| Sep 2020 | 212 | 928 | 4.4 | 621 | 2.93 |
| Sep 2019 | 202 | 978 | 4.8 | 644 | 3.19 |
| Sep 2018 | 203 | 936 | 4.6 | 648 | 3.19 |
| Sep 2017 | 204 | 859 | 4.2 | 559 | 2.74 |
| Sep 2016 | 194 | 973 | 5.0 | 584 | 3.01 |
| Sep 2015 | 202 | 843 | 4.2 | 464 | 2.30 |
| Sep 2014 | 205 | 859 | 4.2 | 447 | 2.18 |
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.) | 227 | 59.0 | 74% | 91% | – |
| 2024/25 | 225 | 58.2 | 72% | 86% | – |
| 2023/24 | 220 | 61.6 | 80% | 89% | +0.95 |
| 2022/23 | 213 | 59.1 | 78% | 89% | +0.57 |
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
- Northampton School for BoysThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.5applications per place 59.0Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · West NorthamptonshireGraded · no overall grade20241.1applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · West NorthamptonshireRemains Good20232.0applications per place 44.4Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · West NorthamptonshireGood20241.9applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · West Northamptonshire20262.5applications per place 59.2Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · West NorthamptonshireOutstanding20233.8applications per place 53.3Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · West NorthamptonshireGood20222.0applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · West NorthamptonshireStandards maintained20258.9applications per place 54.7Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · West Northamptonshire20261.4applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136299 · 941/5404
- Trust
- The Nsb Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,617 pupils · 1,756 on roll
- Free school meals
- 11.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2010
- Replaced
- Northampton School for Boys (URN 122117)
- Address
- Billing Road, Northampton, NN1 5RT
- Local authority
- West Northamptonshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources