The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Nottingham Academy

URN 135881 · All Through · Academy sponsor led · Nottingham

Greenwood Road, Nottingham, NG3 7EB

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 34 families named Nottingham Academy as their first preference, and the school made 36 offers.

That is 0.94 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 35% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 35% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.9 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 34 43 36 0.94
2024 30 42 31 0.97
2023 44 64 44 1.00
2022 39 50 39 1.00
2021 51 78 64 0.80
2020 66 118 81 0.81
2019 88 124 111 0.79
2018 86 136 106 0.81
2017 94 157 115 0.82
2016 103 166 113 0.91
2015 113 196 133 0.85
2014 104 180 118 0.88

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2023 to 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 21 April 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Early years: Strong standard

Sixth form / post-16: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 14 November 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 42.10 - 56.1% 2.1%
2023/24 40.60 -0.17
likely between -0.34 and 0.01
51.4% 2.5%
2022/23 40.60 -0.59
likely between -0.78 and -0.40
54.4% 9.7%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 47.0% 5.0% 101.0 102.0
2023/24 51.0% 5.0% 102.0 103.0
2022/23 51.0% 3.0% 101.0 101.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 122.6 112.0 4.8 5.8 8.6%
2023/24 123.9 104.4 10.0 9.5 15.7%
2022/23 132.4 99.4 16.4 16.6 24.9%
2021/22 130.1 107.3 12.2 10.6 17.5%
2020/21 127.4 112.7 3.4 11.3 11.5%
2019/20 175.4 113.2 55.2 7.0 35.5%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.