Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Nottinghamshire
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 | Outstanding |
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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 entry722 applications · 264 places offered · 238 named it first
- 2026 2.7; Nottinghamshire median median 2.4
- 2025 2.6; Nottinghamshire median median 2.3
- 2024 2.5; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2023 2.7; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2022 2.5; Nottinghamshire median median 2.1
- 2021 2.3; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0
- 2020 2.5; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9
- 2019 2.1; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9
- 2018 2.2; Nottinghamshire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 2.1; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 2.0; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2015 2.1; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 2.3; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Nottinghamshire median
Dashed bars: as Arnold Hill Academy (URN 137536), Arnold Hill School and Technology College (URN 122847), 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 | 264 | 722 | 2.7 | 238 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 251 | 658 | 2.6 | 194 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2024 | 272 | 679 | 2.5 | 242 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2023 | 270 | 738 | 2.7 | 250 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2022 | 267 | 676 | 2.5 | 237 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2021 | 274 | 627 | 2.3 | 253 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2020 | 260 | 661 | 2.5 | 240 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2019 | 199 | 419 | 2.1 | 179 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2018 * | 259 | 562 | 2.2 | 211 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2017 * | 260 | 548 | 2.1 | 207 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2016 * | 260 | 522 | 2.0 | 196 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2015 * | 242 | 509 | 2.1 | 193 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2014 * | 260 | 592 | 2.3 | 258 | 0.99 |
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.) | 263 | 47.8 | 53% | 69% | – |
| 2024/25 | 262 | 49.8 | 52% | 73% | – |
| 2023/24 | 261 | 48.1 | 52% | 72% | +0.07 |
| 2022/23 | 256 | 44.5 | 45% | 66% | −0.21 |
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
- Arnold Hill Spencer AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.7applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 0.5 km · NottinghamshireRemains Good20232.9applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · NottinghamshireOutstanding20243.3applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Nottingham20261.4applications per place 38.7Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · NottinghamshireRemains Good20222.6applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · NottinghamRemains Good20224.1applications per place 52.0Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · NottinghamGood20231.9applications per place 44.7Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · NottinghamGood20243.2applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · NottinghamGood20241.8applications per place 46.2Attainment 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
- 146562 · 891/4026
- Capacity
- 1,682 pupils · 1,552 on roll
- Free school meals
- 20.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 October 2018
- Replaced
- Arnold Hill Academy (URN 137536); Arnold Hill School and Technology College (URN 122847)
- Address
- Gedling Road, Arnold, Gedling Road,, Nottingham, NG5 6NZ
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire · Gedling
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources