Graded inspection · May 2025 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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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 entry158 applications · 118 places offered · 115 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.8
- 2025 1.4; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2024 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.4; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2022 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2021 1.2; Shropshire median median 1.5
- 2020 1.1; Shropshire median median 1.7
- 2019 1.2; Shropshire median median 1.5
- 2018 1.2; Shropshire median median 1.4
- 2017 1.2; Shropshire median median 1.5
- 2016 1.2; Shropshire median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2015 1.2; Shropshire median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2014 1.3; Shropshire median median 1.3; as the previous school
- This school
- Shropshire median
Dashed bars: as Ludlow Church of England School (URN 123587), 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 | 118 | 158 | 1.3 | 115 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 118 | 165 | 1.4 | 115 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 127 | 168 | 1.3 | 120 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2023 | 124 | 167 | 1.4 | 121 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2022 | 111 | 147 | 1.3 | 111 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 111 | 132 | 1.2 | 105 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2020 | 107 | 120 | 1.1 | 107 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 | 103 | 127 | 1.2 | 100 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2018 | 106 | 126 | 1.2 | 106 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 107 | 127 | 1.2 | 107 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 105 | 126 | 1.2 | 105 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 * | 113 | 136 | 1.2 | 113 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 115 | 147 | 1.3 | 112 | 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.) | 106 | 40.0 | 28% | 57% | – |
| 2024/25 | 110 | 41.9 | 30% | 56% | – |
| 2023/24 | 110 | 41.4 | 31% | 58% | −0.47 |
| 2022/23 | 101 | 42.8 | 31% | 60% | −0.31 |
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
- Ludlow Church of England SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 40.0Attainment 8
- 11.3 km · Herefordshire, County ofRemains Good20231.8applications per place 46.4Attainment 8
- 12.1 km · WorcestershireGood20241.4applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- 16.6 km · ShropshireRequires improvement20241.5applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 17.3 km · Herefordshire, County ofGood20231.1applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- 19.3 km · ShropshireRemains Good20241.8applications per place 44.7Attainment 8
- 22.0 km · ShropshireRemains Good20231.5applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 25.8 km · Herefordshire, County ofRemains Good20231.4applications per place 37.0Attainment 8
- 26.5 km · Herefordshire, County of20262.0applications per place 45.0Attainment 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
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 144435 · 893/4501
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 700 pupils · 626 on roll
- Free school meals
- 23.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2017
- Replaced
- Ludlow Church of England School (URN 123587)
- Address
- Bromfield Road, Burway, Ludlow, SY8 1GJ
- Local authority
- Shropshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources