Graded inspection · Jun 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 | |||
| Early years 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 entry54 applications · 29 places offered · 28 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
Small intakeFewer than 60 places, so not ranked.
HistoryEarlier years not shown: formed from, or split from, other schools.
- 2026 1.9; Norfolk median median 1.6
- 2025 1.8; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2024 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.4
- 2023 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.4
- This school
- Norfolk median
Reception entry, September 2026: per place (1 applications for 0 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 | 29 | 54 | 1.9 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 38 | 68 | 1.8 | 39 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2024 | 53 | 68 | 1.3 | 51 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 | 55 | 72 | 1.3 | 55 | 1.00 |
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.) | 88 | 45.9 | 40% | 74% | – |
| 2024/25 | 91 | 42.7 | 30% | 64% | – |
| 2023/24 | 97 | 47.3 | 35% | 64% | +0.04 |
| 2022/23 | 94 | 43.7 | 29% | 54% | −0.02 |
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
- The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)This schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 9.4 km · SuffolkRemains Good · improving20231.9applications per place 47.4Attainment 8
- 11.1 km · Norfolk20261.4applications per place 48.5Attainment 8
- 11.3 km · Suffolk20261.5applications per place 42.1Attainment 8
- 12.5 km · NorfolkRemains Good20241.2applications per place 43.0Attainment 8
- 13.7 km · SuffolkGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 18.8 km · Suffolk20261.6applications per place 46.7Attainment 8
- 19.1 km · SuffolkGood20231.6applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 19.4 km · NorfolkGood20231.4applications per place 46.3Attainment 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
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 149197 · 926/4034
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 973 pupils · 824 on roll
- Free school meals
- 24.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Address
- Wilderness Lane, Harleston, IP20 9DD
- Local authority
- Norfolk · South Norfolk
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources