Academy sponsor led · Secondary
Sutton-in-Ashfield · NG17 1EE · Nottinghamshire
Ages 11–18
Status: Open
0.9 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 137857
Quarrydale Academy
Academy converter · Sutton-in-Ashfield · NG17 2DU
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,265
Local authority
Nottinghamshire
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- 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 academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, 1,265 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 39.1%.
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Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 137857
Location
- Address
- Stoneyford Road
- Postcode
- NG17 2DU
- Town
- Sutton-in-Ashfield
- County
- Nottinghamshire
- Local authority
- Nottinghamshire
- District
- Ashfield
- Constituency
- Ashfield
- Urban/rural
- Urban: 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
- 1,265
- Boys / girls
- 613 / 652
- School capacity
- 1,550
- Capacity fill
- 1,265 / 1,550 (82%)
- Free school meals
- 39.1%
- FSM pupils
- 452
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: QUARRYDALE ACADEMY
- Academy trust
- QUARRYDALE ACADEMY
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Tim Paling
- Telephone
- 01623554178
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
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-05-07
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- 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
- 38.4
- Progress 8
- -0.6
- English & maths grade 5+
- 33%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 53%
- EBacc entry
- 46%
- EBacc APS
- 3.5