Graded inspection · Mar 2024 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| 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 entry480 applications · 259 places offered · 150 named it first
- 2026 1.9; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2025 1.8; West Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2024 1.5; West Northamptonshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.5; West Northamptonshire median median 1.7
- 2022 1.5; West Northamptonshire median median 1.7
- 2021 1.4; West Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2020 1.4; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.4; West Northamptonshire median median 1.6
- 2018 1.3; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.7; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2016 1.6; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2015 2.2; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2014 2.3; 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 | 259 | 480 | 1.9 | 150 | 0.58 |
| Sep 2025 | 267 | 470 | 1.8 | 134 | 0.50 |
| Sep 2024 | 266 | 388 | 1.5 | 133 | 0.50 |
| Sep 2023 | 276 | 406 | 1.5 | 121 | 0.44 |
| Sep 2022 | 233 | 342 | 1.5 | 87 | 0.37 |
| Sep 2021 | 261 | 366 | 1.4 | 122 | 0.47 |
| Sep 2020 | 268 | 365 | 1.4 | 133 | 0.50 |
| Sep 2019 | 268 | 369 | 1.4 | 120 | 0.45 |
| Sep 2018 | 265 | 335 | 1.3 | 101 | 0.38 |
| Sep 2017 | 261 | 434 | 1.7 | 140 | 0.54 |
| Sep 2016 | 264 | 412 | 1.6 | 98 | 0.37 |
| Sep 2015 | 238 | 528 | 2.2 | 157 | 0.66 |
| Sep 2014 | 231 | 520 | 2.3 | 171 | 0.74 |
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.) | 239 | 44.9 | 44% | 63% | – |
| 2024/25 | 285 | 41.8 | 31% | 56% | – |
| 2023/24 | 286 | 39.2 | 30% | 53% | −0.13 |
| 2022/23 | 232 | 38.2 | 32% | 49% | −0.22 |
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
- Weston Favell AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.9applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · West NorthamptonshireOutstanding20233.8applications per place 53.3Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · West NorthamptonshireGood20222.0applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · West Northamptonshire20262.5applications per place 59.2Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · West NorthamptonshireGraded · no overall grade20254.5applications per place 59.0Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · West Northamptonshire20264.9applications per place
- 3.0 km · West NorthamptonshireStandards maintained20251.6applications per place 43.5Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · West NorthamptonshireRemains Good20232.0applications per place 44.4Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · West NorthamptonshireGood20232.4applications per place 42.6Attainment 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
- 136948 · 941/4000
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,525 pupils · 1,431 on roll
- Free school meals
- 36.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2012
- Replaced
- Weston Favell School (URN 122075)
- Address
- Booth Lane South, Northampton, NN3 3EZ
- Local authority
- West Northamptonshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources