Graded inspection · Dec 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Norfolk
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry148 applications · 110 places offered · 102 named it first
- 2026 1.4; Norfolk median median 1.6
- 2025 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2024 1.0; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2023 1.0; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2022 1.2; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2021 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2020 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.5
- 2019 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.5
- 2018 1.6; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2017 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.3
- 2016 1.4; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2015 1.4; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2014 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.4
- This school
- Norfolk median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 110 | 148 | 1.4 | 102 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2025 | 112 | 143 | 1.3 | 100 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2024 | 120 | 121 | 1.0 | 70 | 0.58 |
| Sep 2023 | 142 | 142 | 1.0 | 102 | 0.72 |
| Sep 2022 | 140 | 171 | 1.2 | 123 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2021 | 122 | 160 | 1.3 | 109 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2020 | 126 | 164 | 1.3 | 108 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2019 | 131 | 194 | 1.5 | 136 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2018 | 83 | 129 | 1.6 | 80 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2017 | 121 | 175 | 1.5 | 119 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2016 | 86 | 120 | 1.4 | 85 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2015 | 85 | 116 | 1.4 | 84 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2014 | 100 | 126 | 1.3 | 99 | 0.99 |
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.) | 100 | 37.3 | 26% | 51% | – |
| 2024/25 | 116 | 39.0 | 38% | 57% | – |
| 2023/24 | 143 | 34.7 | 25% | 46% | −0.73 |
| 2022/23 | 87 | 38.9 | 32% | 49% | −0.38 |
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
- Iceni Secondary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.4applications per place 37.3Attainment 8
- 10.2 km · SuffolkRemains Good20221.3applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- 14.2 km · NorfolkGood20221.3applications per place 42.5Attainment 8
- 15.3 km · Norfolk20261.2applications per place 43.7Attainment 8
- 17.6 km · NorfolkStandards maintained20251.1applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 18.7 km · NorfolkGood20231.2applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 19.1 km · CambridgeshireSerious weaknesses 20251.1applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 20.7 km · SuffolkRemains Good20241.2applications per place 39.5Attainment 8
- 24.4 km · CambridgeshireImproved significantly20251.6applications per place 53.7Attainment 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
- 139058 · 926/6911
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 745 pupils · 555 on roll
- Free school meals
- 23.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2013
- Replaced
- Hockwold and Methwold Community School (URN 121165); Hockwold Primary School (URN 120820)
- Address
- Stoke Road, Methwold, Thetford, IP26 4PE
- Local authority
- Norfolk · King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources