Graded inspection · Jun 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Shropshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
Inspection history
- 11 June 2024Graded inspection: Requires improvement
- 8 March 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
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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 entry146 applications · 99 places offered · 95 named it first
- 2026 1.5; Shropshire median median 1.8
- 2025 1.4; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2024 1.6; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.6; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2022 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2021 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.5
- 2020 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.7
- 2019 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.5
- 2018 1.4; Shropshire median median 1.4
- 2017 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.5
- 2016 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.4
- 2015 1.4; Shropshire median median 1.4
- 2014 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.3; as the previous school
- This school
- Shropshire median
Dashed bars: as The Lacon Childe School (URN 123578), the previous school.
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 | 99 | 146 | 1.5 | 95 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2025 | 114 | 158 | 1.4 | 108 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2024 | 108 | 177 | 1.6 | 111 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2023 | 107 | 174 | 1.6 | 110 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2022 | 100 | 130 | 1.3 | 95 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2021 | 108 | 138 | 1.3 | 108 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 93 | 117 | 1.3 | 92 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2019 | 104 | 136 | 1.3 | 112 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2018 | 103 | 140 | 1.4 | 103 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 116 | 150 | 1.3 | 116 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 | 100 | 127 | 1.3 | 97 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2015 | 100 | 135 | 1.4 | 98 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2014 * | 77 | 96 | 1.3 | 75 | 0.97 |
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.) | 107 | 41.5 | 34% | 59% | – |
| 2024/25 | 91 | 45.8 | 40% | 64% | – |
| 2023/24 | 103 | 45.1 | 44% | 64% | −0.28 |
| 2022/23 | 112 | 45.5 | 35% | 68% | −0.12 |
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
- The Lacon Childe SchoolThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20241.5applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 11.5 km · WorcestershireGood20241.4applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- 12.2 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade20242.2applications per place 43.7Attainment 8
- 14.6 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 33.3Attainment 8
- 14.6 km · WorcestershireGood20221.2applications per place 37.4Attainment 8
- 16.2 km · Worcestershire20262.3applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 16.6 km · ShropshireGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 40.0Attainment 8
- 16.8 km · WorcestershireGood20223.4applications per place 47.2Attainment 8
- 17.0 km · WorcestershireGood20231.4applications per place 42.1Attainment 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
- 141451 · 893/4412
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 540 pupils · 563 on roll
- Free school meals
- 24.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 October 2014
- Replaced
- The Lacon Childe School (URN 123578)
- Address
- Love Lane, Cleobury Mortimer, Kidderminster, DY14 8PE
- Local authority
- Shropshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources