The School Record

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

City of Norwich School, An Ormiston Academy

URN 141269 · Secondary · Academy converter · Norfolk

Eaton Road, Norwich, NR4 6PP

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, 222 families named City of Norwich School, An Ormiston Academy as their first preference, and the school made 242 offers.

That is 0.92 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 41% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 41% 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 1.06 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 11 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 222 518 242 0.92
2024 263 504 263 1.00
2023 299 498 270 1.11
2022 272 464 271 1.00
2021 295 505 264 1.12
2020 279 477 269 1.04
2019 334 584 269 1.24
2018 291 496 270 1.08
2017 314 478 279 1.13
2016 264 400 269 0.98
2015 257 428 252 1.02

“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 ungraded inspection, 8 December 2021

School remains 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 50.40 - 75.3% 14.7%
2023/24 48.60 -0.09
likely between -0.26 and 0.09		 65.1% 11.6%
2022/23 50.60 0.28
likely between 0.11 and 0.46		 70.1% 5.4%

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
2024/25 103.1 97.1 1.4 4.6 5.8%
2023/24 105.3 89.9 8.0 7.4 14.6%
2022/23 106.0 91.8 7.5 6.7 13.4%
2021/22 102.6 94.0 0.0 8.6 8.4%
2020/21 101.4 92.2 5.6 3.6 9.1%
2019/20 101.5 87.6 5.6 8.4 13.8%

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

Norfolk publishes an admission zone for this school (City of Norwich School).

Covers: 161 live postcodes across 2.414 km².

10 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Norfolk publishes an admission zone for this school (City of Norwich School Notional).

Covers: 1,887 live postcodes across 20.903 km².

56 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for City of Norwich School, An Ormiston Academy. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from City of Norwich School, An Ormiston Academy.

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.