Ashfield Comprehensive School
Ofsted: Expected standardAcademy converter · Secondary
Nottingham · NG17 8HP · Nottinghamshire
Ages 11–18
- Att845.4
- P8-0.1
- EM5+43%
- Absence8.4%
1.3 miles away
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Outwood Academy Kirkby
Academy converter · Nottingham · NG17 7DH
Ages 11–16 · 523 pupils · Nottinghamshire
Ofsted
Not judged
Attainment 8
35.5
Overall absence
17.0%
Admissions demand
0.84 · Often has places
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-05-13
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Progress 8-0.22
−20+2
Attainment 835.5
English & maths grade 5+36%
English & maths grade 4+50%
EBacc entry26%
EBacc APS: 3.1
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence17.0%
Persistent absence (10%+)43.3%
Unauthorised5.7%
- Authorised absence
- 11.2%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 14.8%
- Enrolments in measure
- 582
Absence trend
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for secondary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
0.84 · Often has places
1st preferences
85
Places offered
115
1st-preference offers
85
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 173
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 101
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill76%
523 pupils · 692 places
- Pupils on roll
- 523
- Boys / girls
- 246 / 277
- School capacity
- 692
- Capacity fill
- 523 / 692 (76%)
- Free school meals
- 49.3%
- FSM pupils
- 258
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Governance
- Academy trust: OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST
- Academy trust
- OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST
- Sponsor
- Outwood Grange Academies Trust
- Headteacher
- Mr Andy Scruby
Location
- Address
- Tennyson Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield
- Postcode
- NG17 7DH
- Town
- Nottingham
- County
- Nottinghamshire
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire
- District
- Ashfield
- Constituency
- Ashfield
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–16, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 523 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 49.3%.
Nearby secondary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Sutton Community Academy
Ofsted: Needs attentionAcademy sponsor led · Secondary
Sutton-in-Ashfield · NG17 1EE · Nottinghamshire
Ages 11–18
- Att836.3
- P8-0.5
- EM5+23%
- Absence10.1%
1.9 miles away
Quarrydale Academy
Ofsted: Not judgedAcademy converter · Secondary
Sutton-in-Ashfield · NG17 2DU · Nottinghamshire
Ages 11–18
- Att838.4
- P8-0.6
- EM5+33%
- Absence8.8%
2.7 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Andy Scruby
- Telephone
- 01623455925