Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in WarwickshireSelective
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 |
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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 entry630 applications · 172 places offered · 179 named it first
- 2026 3.7; Warwickshire median median 2.6
- 2025 3.2; Warwickshire median median 2.5
- 2024 3.5; Warwickshire median median 2.4
- 2023 3.6; Warwickshire median median 2.5
- 2022 3.3; Warwickshire median median 2.1
- This school
- Warwickshire median
Reception entry, September 2026: 2.7 per place (75 applications for 28 places).
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 | 172 | 630 | 3.7 | 179 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2025 | 182 | 587 | 3.2 | 169 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 | 171 | 603 | 3.5 | 192 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2023 | 175 | 633 | 3.6 | 223 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2022 | 172 | 565 | 3.3 | 177 | 1.03 |
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.) | 177 | 46.0 | 49% | 72% | – |
| 2024/25 | 0 | – | |||
| 2023/24 | 0 | – | |||
| 2022/23 | 0 | – |
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
- Houlton SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20243.7applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · WarwickshireGraded · no overall grade20253.6applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 4.5 km · Warwickshire20263.1applications per place 75.7Attainment 8 Selective
- 5.1 km · Warwickshire20265.0applications per place 43.5Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · Warwickshire20263.3applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · WarwickshireGood20232.5applications per place 42.7Attainment 8
- 6.9 km · WarwickshireGood20222.7applications per place 77.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 7.4 km · Warwickshire20262.2applications per place 39.3Attainment 8
- 9.6 km · LeicestershireGood20242.9applications per place 51.0Attainment 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
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 143707 · 937/4010
- Trust
- Transforming Lives Educational Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,000 pupils · 895 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2021
- Address
- Signal Drive, Houlton, RUGBY, CV23 1ED
- Local authority
- Warwickshire · Rugby
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources