Graded inspection · May 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 1 May 2024Graded inspection: Outstanding
- 25 May 2022Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry506 applications · 179 places offered · 165 named it first
- 2026 2.8; Norfolk median median 1.6
- 2025 3.0; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2024 2.5; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2023 2.5; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2022 2.1; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2021 2.3; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2020 2.3; Norfolk median median 1.5
- 2019 1.8; Norfolk median median 1.5
- 2018 2.3; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2017 2.3; Norfolk median median 1.3
- 2016 2.0; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2015 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.4
- This school
- Norfolk 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 | 179 | 506 | 2.8 | 165 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2025 | 174 | 528 | 3.0 | 185 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2024 | 172 | 430 | 2.5 | 162 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2023 | 177 | 449 | 2.5 | 176 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2022 | 179 | 380 | 2.1 | 160 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2021 | 183 | 419 | 2.3 | 186 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2020 | 178 | 415 | 2.3 | 176 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2019 | 180 | 329 | 1.8 | 128 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2018 | 180 | 414 | 2.3 | 169 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2017 | 178 | 410 | 2.3 | 225 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2016 | 179 | 360 | 2.0 | 227 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2015 | 140 | 233 | 1.7 | 124 | 0.89 |
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.) | 175 | 52.2 | 59% | 72% | – |
| 2024/25 | 176 | 53.7 | 64% | 76% | – |
| 2023/24 | 165 | 49.0 | 63% | 79% | +0.26 |
| 2022/23 | 173 | 48.3 | 50% | 71% | +0.23 |
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
- Jane Austen CollegeThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20242.8applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · NorfolkGood20242.8applications per place 57.0Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · Norfolk20262.0applications per place 37.6Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · NorfolkGood20232.8applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · NorfolkGood20232.6applications per place 33.1Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Norfolk20262.1applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · Norfolk20261.6applications per place 45.8Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · NorfolkRequires improvement20241.5applications per place 36.2Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · NorfolkGraded · no overall grade202550.4Attainment 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
- 140815 · 926/4013
- Trust
- Inspiration Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,100 pupils · 1,085 on roll
- Free school meals
- 27.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2014
- Address
- 46-48 Colegate, Norwich, NR3 1DD
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources