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Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form

URN 137013 · Secondary · Academy converter · Essex

Notley Road, Braintree, CM7 1WY

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, 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, 168 families named Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form as their first preference, and the school made 208 offers.

That is 0.81 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 27% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 27% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.9 in 2021–2022 and 0.85 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 168 352 208 0.81
2024 182 335 205 0.89
2023 178 314 192 0.93
2022 167 309 176 0.95
2021 204 382 237 0.86
2020 244 465 250 0.98
2019 223 451 239 0.93
2018 228 514 243 0.94
2017 257 538 244 1.05
2016 251 580 236 1.06
2015 248 568 232 1.07
2014 255 595 234 1.09

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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), 19 May 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Sixth form / post-16: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 11 July 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 44.90 - 61.1% 20.8%
2023/24 44.10 -0.11
likely between -0.30 and 0.08		 62.0% 14.9%
2022/23 42.50 -0.25
likely between -0.44 and -0.07		 61.2% 10.3%

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.

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 66.5 52.1 8.4 6.0 21.7%
2023/24 72.5 53.2 11.6 7.7 26.6%
2022/23 74.9 55.6 12.6 6.7 25.8%
2021/22 84.2 60.3 13.0 10.9 28.4%
2020/21 89.0 74.9 4.6 9.5 15.8%
2019/20 89.3 81.7 3.7 3.9 8.5%

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.

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form.

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.