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 | 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 entry1,057 applications · 358 places offered · 363 named it first
- 2026 3.0; Nottinghamshire median median 2.4
- 2025 3.2; Nottinghamshire median median 2.3
- 2024 3.2; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2023 3.1; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2022 3.0; Nottinghamshire median median 2.1
- 2021 2.9; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0
- 2020 3.0; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9
- 2019 2.5; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9
- 2018 2.5; Nottinghamshire median median 1.7
- 2017 2.8; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8
- 2016 2.5; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0
- 2015 2.6; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8
- 2014 2.7; 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 | 358 | 1,057 | 3.0 | 363 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2025 | 328 | 1,036 | 3.2 | 387 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2024 | 329 | 1,041 | 3.2 | 384 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2023 | 326 | 998 | 3.1 | 369 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2022 | 326 | 963 | 3.0 | 382 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2021 | 300 | 874 | 2.9 | 362 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2020 | 290 | 882 | 3.0 | 324 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2019 | 330 | 822 | 2.5 | 340 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2018 | 326 | 822 | 2.5 | 363 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2017 | 284 | 788 | 2.8 | 325 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2016 | 290 | 715 | 2.5 | 294 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2015 | 260 | 672 | 2.6 | 282 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2014 | 236 | 646 | 2.7 | 251 | 1.06 |
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.) | 295 | 58.3 | 74% | 85% | – |
| 2024/25 | 297 | 58.1 | 74% | 86% | – |
| 2023/24 | 315 | 59.4 | 75% | 89% | +0.69 |
| 2022/23 | 331 | 59.2 | 72% | 87% | +0.84 |
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
- Rushcliffe Spencer AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.0applications per place 58.3Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · NottinghamshireOutstanding20244.0applications per place 61.4Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · NottinghamshireGood20224.4applications per place 52.3Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · NottinghamGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 44.1Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · NottinghamGood20221.1applications per place 37.9Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · Nottingham20261.2applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · NottinghamGood20224.3applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · NottinghamshireGraded · no overall grade20253.9applications per place 51.3Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · NottinghamGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 37.0Attainment 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
- 138482 · 891/4329
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,920 pupils · 2,039 on roll
- Free school meals
- 12.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2012
- Replaced
- Rushcliffe School (URN 122860)
- Address
- Boundary Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7BW
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire · Rushcliffe
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources