Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in North 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 entry516 applications · 150 places offered · 166 named it first
- 2026 3.4; North Northamptonshire median median 2.1
- 2025 3.3; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2024 3.4; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2023 4.1; North Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2022 4.8; North Northamptonshire median median 1.7
- 2021 2.8; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2020 2.8; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2019 4.0; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2018 3.3; North Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2017 3.0; North Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2016 6.2; North Northamptonshire median median 2.3
- 2015 5.9; North Northamptonshire median median 2.4
- 2014 4.6; North Northamptonshire median median 2.1
- This school
- North 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 | 150 | 516 | 3.4 | 166 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2025 | 147 | 488 | 3.3 | 160 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2024 | 147 | 493 | 3.4 | 150 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2023 | 145 | 599 | 4.1 | 192 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2022 | 144 | 693 | 4.8 | 247 | 1.72 |
| Sep 2021 | 231 | 647 | 2.8 | 195 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2020 | 230 | 638 | 2.8 | 192 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2019 | 147 | 593 | 4.0 | 193 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2018 | 145 | 474 | 3.3 | 108 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2017 | 146 | 434 | 3.0 | 99 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2016 | 70 | 437 | 6.2 | 136 | 1.94 |
| Sep 2015 | 70 | 416 | 5.9 | 87 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2014 | 74 | 340 | 4.6 | 55 | 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.) | 234 | 46.0 | 43% | 66% | – |
| 2024/25 | 216 | 45.8 | 43% | 61% | – |
| 2023/24 | 147 | 46.5 | 48% | 66% | −0.07 |
| 2022/23 | 147 | 46.3 | 46% | 67% | +0.01 |
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
- Corby Technical SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.4applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · North Northamptonshire20260.9applications per place 37.0Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · North NorthamptonshireGood20233.7applications per place 46.5Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · North NorthamptonshireStandards maintained20251.9applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · North NorthamptonshireGood20232.5applications per place 41.9Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · North Northamptonshire20263.2applications per place
- 8.5 km · North Northamptonshire20263.7applications per place 51.4Attainment 8
- 10.1 km · North NorthamptonshireGood20231.7applications per place 35.3Attainment 8
- 10.5 km · RutlandRemains Good20232.1applications per place 45.6Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 138254 · 940/4003
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 952 on roll
- Free school meals
- 27.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 30 August 2012
- Address
- Cottingham Road, Corby, NN17 1TD
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources