Graded inspection · Apr 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 | 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 entry467 applications · 168 places offered · 168 named it first
- 2026 2.8; Shropshire median median 1.8
- 2025 2.2; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2024 2.4; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2023 2.8; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2022 3.0; Shropshire median median 1.6
- 2021 2.9; Shropshire median median 1.5
- 2020 3.0; Shropshire median median 1.7
- 2019 3.0; Shropshire median median 1.5
- 2018 2.6; Shropshire median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2017 2.3; Shropshire median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2016 2.1; Shropshire median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2015 2.0; Shropshire median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2014 1.6; Shropshire median median 1.3; as the previous school
- This school
- Shropshire median
Dashed bars: as Belvidere School (URN 123570), 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 | 168 | 467 | 2.8 | 168 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 168 | 366 | 2.2 | 151 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2024 | 168 | 408 | 2.4 | 171 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2023 | 178 | 504 | 2.8 | 195 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2022 | 163 | 486 | 3.0 | 185 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2021 | 164 | 470 | 2.9 | 225 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2020 | 160 | 480 | 3.0 | 203 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2019 | 164 | 494 | 3.0 | 227 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2018 * | 162 | 415 | 2.6 | 224 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2017 * | 163 | 379 | 2.3 | 166 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2016 * | 160 | 330 | 2.1 | 199 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2015 * | 165 | 323 | 2.0 | 184 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2014 * | 152 | 249 | 1.6 | 135 | 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.) | 162 | 42.9 | 35% | 59% | – |
| 2024/25 | 169 | 39.8 | 34% | 52% | – |
| 2023/24 | 171 | 41.4 | 38% | 56% | −0.44 |
| 2022/23 | 161 | 44.5 | 46% | 65% | 0.00 |
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
- Belvidere SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.8applications per place 42.9Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · ShropshireRequires improvement20241.5applications per place 31.9Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · ShropshireGood20234.3applications per place 52.6Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · ShropshireGood20242.5applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 12.8 km · ShropshireRemains Good20222.3applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- 13.0 km · ShropshireGood20232.7applications per place 41.1Attainment 8
- 13.7 km · Telford and Wrekin20262.6applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 13.9 km · Telford and WrekinGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 16.3 km · Telford and WrekinRemains Good · improving20223.2applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 146506 · 893/4396
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 840 pupils · 830 on roll
- Free school meals
- 30.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2019
- Replaced
- Belvidere School (URN 123570)
- Address
- Belvidere Lane, Shrewsbury, SY2 5RJ
- Local authority
- Shropshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources