Academy converter · Secondary
Burntwood · WS7 2DB · Staffordshire
Ages 11–18
Status: Open
1.5 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 124395
Norton Canes High School
Community school · Cannock · WS11 9SP
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
400
Local authority
Staffordshire
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Cannock, Staffordshire, 400 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 40.3%. SEN provision includes: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 124395
Location
- Address
- Burntwood Road, Norton Canes
- Postcode
- WS11 9SP
- Town
- Cannock
- County
- Staffordshire
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- District
- Cannock Chase
- Constituency
- Cannock Chase
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 400
- Boys / girls
- 217 / 183
- School capacity
- 724
- Capacity fill
- 400 / 724 (55%)
- Free school meals
- 40.3%
- FSM pupils
- 144
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Resourced provision
- Resourced provision
- Resourced places
- 6 on roll / 6 capacity
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Diggory
- Telephone
- 01543622600
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2024-04-30
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 36.9
- Progress 8
- -0.5
- English & maths grade 5+
- 19%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 41%
- EBacc entry
- 9%
- EBacc APS
- 3.0