Graded inspection · May 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry164 applications · 75 places offered · 65 named it first
- 2026 2.2; Nottinghamshire median median 2.4
- 2025 1.7; Nottinghamshire median median 2.3
- 2024 1.5; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2023 1.5; Nottinghamshire median median 2.2
- 2022 1.0; Nottinghamshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2021 1.5; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2020 1.3; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2019 1.9; Nottinghamshire median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2018 1.9; Nottinghamshire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 1.7; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 2.2; Nottinghamshire median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2015 2.2; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 2.2; Nottinghamshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Nottinghamshire median
Dashed bars: as Kirkby College (URN 138481), Kirkby College (URN 122826), 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 | 75 | 164 | 2.2 | 65 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2025 | 90 | 156 | 1.7 | 61 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2024 | 115 | 173 | 1.5 | 85 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2023 | 115 | 169 | 1.5 | 68 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2022 * | 164 | 170 | 1.0 | 68 | 0.41 |
| Sep 2021 * | 102 | 152 | 1.5 | 74 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2020 * | 107 | 137 | 1.3 | 63 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2019 * | 68 | 129 | 1.9 | 60 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2018 * | 80 | 150 | 1.9 | 75 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2017 * | 85 | 143 | 1.7 | 69 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2016 * | 74 | 164 | 2.2 | 73 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2015 * | 68 | 150 | 2.2 | 68 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 76 | 170 | 2.2 | 75 | 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.) | 83 | 40.5 | 34% | 53% | – |
| 2024/25 | 83 | 36.1 | 34% | 47% | – |
| 2023/24 | 72 | 35.5 | 36% | 50% | −0.22 |
| 2022/23 | 77 | 32.5 | 27% | 42% | −0.79 |
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
- Outwood Academy KirkbyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 40.5Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Nottinghamshire20261.8applications per place 45.2Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · Nottinghamshire20263.2applications per place 39.1Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · NottinghamshireGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 39.3Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · NottinghamshireStandards maintained20251.9applications per place 40.1Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · Derbyshire20251.3applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · NottinghamshireGood20232.4applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · NottinghamshireRemains Good20222.8applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 6.9 km · NottinghamshireGood20232.5applications per place 32.3Attainment 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
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 149429 · 891/4027
- Capacity
- 692 pupils · 523 on roll
- Free school meals
- 49.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Replaced
- Kirkby College (URN 138481); Kirkby College (URN 122826)
- Address
- Tennyson Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottingham, NG17 7DH
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire · Ashfield
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources