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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Requires improvement |
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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 entry369 applications · 196 places offered · 195 named it first
- 2026 1.9; Nottinghamshire median median 2.4
- 2025 1.8; Nottinghamshire median median 2.3
- 2024 1.8; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2023 1.8; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2022 1.8; Nottinghamshire median median 2.1
- 2021 1.8; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0
- 2020 1.8; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.9; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9
- 2018 1.7; Nottinghamshire median median 1.7
- 2017 1.8; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8
- 2016 1.9; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0
- 2015 1.8; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8
- 2014 1.7; 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 | 196 | 369 | 1.9 | 195 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2025 | 225 | 399 | 1.8 | 207 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2024 | 204 | 369 | 1.8 | 187 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2023 | 240 | 437 | 1.8 | 245 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2022 | 240 | 435 | 1.8 | 259 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2021 | 240 | 419 | 1.8 | 265 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2020 | 210 | 373 | 1.8 | 245 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2019 | 179 | 332 | 1.9 | 215 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2018 | 180 | 312 | 1.7 | 211 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2017 | 180 | 331 | 1.8 | 210 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2016 | 180 | 339 | 1.9 | 220 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2015 | 181 | 324 | 1.8 | 210 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2014 | 180 | 305 | 1.7 | 189 | 1.05 |
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.) | 225 | 39.3 | 27% | 51% | – |
| 2024/25 | 237 | 36.6 | 24% | 51% | – |
| 2023/24 | 211 | 38.4 | 33% | 53% | −0.56 |
| 2022/23 | 203 | 38.2 | 30% | 45% | −0.65 |
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
- Quarrydale AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 39.3Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · Nottinghamshire20263.2applications per place 39.1Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Nottinghamshire20261.8applications per place 45.2Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · NottinghamshireRemains Good20222.8applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · NottinghamshireGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 40.5Attainment 8
- 4.6 km · NottinghamshireGood20232.5applications per place 32.3Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · Nottinghamshire20263.0applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · Derbyshire20261.7applications per place 42.9Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · Derbyshire20251.3applications per place 41.5Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 137857 · 891/4068
- Trust
- Quarrydale Academy
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,550 pupils · 1,265 on roll
- Free school meals
- 39.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 February 2012
- Replaced
- Quarrydale School (URN 122840)
- Address
- Stoneyford Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 2DU
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire · Ashfield
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources