Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in North Northamptonshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | 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 entry162 applications · 105 places offered · 98 named it first
- 2026 1.5; North Northamptonshire median median 2.1
- 2025 1.1; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2024 1.4; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8
- 2023 1.3; North Northamptonshire median median 2.0
- 2022 1.5; North Northamptonshire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2021 1.4; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2020 1.7; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2019 1.4; North Northamptonshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 1.2; North Northamptonshire median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 1.3; North Northamptonshire median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 1.4; North Northamptonshire median median 2.3; as the previous school
- 2015 1.4; North Northamptonshire median median 2.4; as the previous school
- 2014 1.3; North Northamptonshire median median 2.1; as the previous school
- This school
- North Northamptonshire median
Dashed bars: as Huxlow Science College (URN 138030), Huxlow Science College (URN 122053), 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 | 105 | 162 | 1.5 | 98 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2025 | 120 | 135 | 1.1 | 103 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2024 | 125 | 173 | 1.4 | 109 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2023 | 124 | 157 | 1.3 | 109 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2022 * | 131 | 193 | 1.5 | 122 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2021 * | 167 | 232 | 1.4 | 152 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2020 * | 140 | 233 | 1.7 | 154 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2019 * | 163 | 235 | 1.4 | 139 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2018 * | 141 | 174 | 1.2 | 112 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2017 * | 110 | 144 | 1.3 | 108 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2016 * | 117 | 165 | 1.4 | 112 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2015 * | 131 | 186 | 1.4 | 124 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2014 * | 128 | 171 | 1.3 | 125 | 0.98 |
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.) | 146 | 39.8 | 31% | 49% | – |
| 2024/25 | 150 | 41.9 | 31% | 58% | – |
| 2023/24 | 171 | 37.3 | 27% | 51% | −0.67 |
| 2022/23 | 147 | 40.1 | 31% | 52% | −0.32 |
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
- Huxlow AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 39.8Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · North NorthamptonshireGood20221.8applications per place 42.1Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · North Northamptonshire20262.3applications per place 40.2Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · North NorthamptonshireGood20222.3applications per place 48.8Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · North NorthamptonshireRemains Good20232.1applications per place 45.0Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · North NorthamptonshireSerious weaknesses Inadequate20241.4applications per place 38.2Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · North NorthamptonshireRemains Good20222.2applications per place 43.4Attainment 8
- 7.6 km · North NorthamptonshireRemains Good20232.4applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 8.5 km · North NorthamptonshireGood20231.8applications per place 44.0Attainment 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
- 149433 · 940/4000
- Trust
- Tove Learning Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 819 pupils · 783 on roll
- Free school meals
- 24.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Replaced
- Huxlow Science College (URN 138030); Huxlow Science College (URN 122053)
- Address
- Finedon Road, Irthlingborough, NN9 5TY
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources