Graded inspection · Apr 2025 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | 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 entry469 applications · 314 places offered · 304 named it first
- 2026 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.6
- 2025 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2024 1.4; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2023 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2022 1.4; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2021 1.4; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2020 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.5
- 2019 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.5
- 2018 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2017 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.3
- 2016 1.5; Norfolk median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2015 1.7; Norfolk median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2014 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.4; as the previous school
- This school
- Norfolk median
Dashed bars: as Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth Form (URN 121180), 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 | 314 | 469 | 1.5 | 304 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 266 | 395 | 1.5 | 253 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2024 | 300 | 413 | 1.4 | 289 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 | 301 | 389 | 1.3 | 267 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2022 | 305 | 414 | 1.4 | 304 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 307 | 422 | 1.4 | 317 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2020 | 299 | 445 | 1.5 | 317 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2019 | 299 | 446 | 1.5 | 319 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2018 | 299 | 441 | 1.5 | 339 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2017 | 300 | 401 | 1.3 | 319 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2016 * | 298 | 441 | 1.5 | 344 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2015 * | 297 | 491 | 1.7 | 389 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2014 * | 306 | 381 | 1.3 | 310 | 1.01 |
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.) | 286 | 47.9 | 47% | 76% | – |
| 2024/25 | 297 | 49.2 | 50% | 71% | – |
| 2023/24 | 277 | 49.4 | 52% | 72% | +0.14 |
| 2022/23 | 289 | 52.4 | 56% | 77% | +0.26 |
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
- Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth FormThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · NorfolkGood20232.6applications per place 33.1Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · Norfolk20261.6applications per place 45.8Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · Norfolk20262.0applications per place 37.6Attainment 8
- 4.3 km · NorfolkOutstanding20242.8applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 4.3 km · NorfolkGood20242.8applications per place 57.0Attainment 8
- 5.2 km · NorfolkGood20232.8applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · Norfolk20262.1applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · NorfolkRemains Good20221.6applications per place 47.3Attainment 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
- 143278 · 926/4083
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,892 pupils · 1,830 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2016
- Replaced
- Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth Form (URN 121180)
- Address
- Laundry Lane, Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, NR7 0XS
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources