Graded inspection · Apr 2025 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 | Inadequate | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Inadequate | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Inadequate | |||
| Sixth form provision | Requires improvement |
Inspection history
- 23 April 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 4 March 2020Ungraded inspection: School remains 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 entry248 applications · 211 places offered · 173 named it first
- 2026 1.2; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2025 1.4; 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 1.5; West Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2020 1.6; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.5; West Northamptonshire median median 1.6
- 2018 1.4; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.4; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2016 1.4; West Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2015 1.3; West Northamptonshire median median 1.9
- 2014 1.3; 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 | 211 | 248 | 1.2 | 173 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2025 | 204 | 284 | 1.4 | 176 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2024 | 237 | 357 | 1.5 | 205 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2023 | 254 | 377 | 1.5 | 233 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2022 | 254 | 381 | 1.5 | 229 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2021 | 236 | 361 | 1.5 | 184 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2020 | 237 | 384 | 1.6 | 225 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2019 | 256 | 373 | 1.5 | 236 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2018 | 249 | 357 | 1.4 | 213 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2017 | 231 | 313 | 1.4 | 213 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2016 | 236 | 322 | 1.4 | 210 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2015 | 230 | 309 | 1.3 | 197 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2014 | 203 | 260 | 1.3 | 166 | 0.82 |
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.) | 227 | 44.2 | 41% | 64% | – |
| 2024/25 | 219 | 44.2 | 32% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 249 | 46.3 | 39% | 68% | −0.25 |
| 2022/23 | 219 | 46.0 | 42% | 67% | −0.21 |
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
- Magdalen College SchoolThis schoolThis schoolSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade20251.2applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 9.7 km · West NorthamptonshireGood20222.7applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 10.1 km · West NorthamptonshireRequires improvement202336.2Attainment 8
- 12.0 km · BuckinghamshireGood20223.0applications per place 75.0Attainment 8 Selective
- 12.1 km · BuckinghamshireGood20231.7applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 13.2 km · OxfordshireGood20234.6applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 13.2 km · OxfordshireGood20222.5applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 13.5 km · OxfordshireRemains Good202244.5Attainment 8
- 13.5 km · OxfordshireRemains Good20231.6applications per place 37.5Attainment 8
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 139158 · 941/4550
- Trust
- Magdalen College School Brackley Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,500 pupils · 1,293 on roll
- Free school meals
- 10.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2013
- Address
- Waynflete Avenue, Brackley, NN13 6FB
- Local authority
- West Northamptonshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources