Academy converter · Secondary
Rushden · NN10 8LF · North Northamptonshire
Ages 11–18
Status: Open
0.8 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 146209
Rushden Academy
Academy sponsor led · Rushden · NN10 6AG
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
961
Local authority
North Northamptonshire
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- Boarding
- 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 sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Rushden, North Northamptonshire, 961 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy. Free school meals: 24.9%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 146209
Location
- Address
- Hayway
- Postcode
- NN10 6AG
- Town
- Rushden
- County
- Northamptonshire
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- District
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden
- 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
- 961
- Boys / girls
- 462 / 499
- School capacity
- 1,295
- Capacity fill
- 961 / 1,295 (74%)
- Free school meals
- 24.9%
- FSM pupils
- 209
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Governance
- Academy trust: TOVE LEARNING TRUST
- Academy trust
- TOVE LEARNING TRUST
- Sponsor
- Tove Learning Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Jonathan Firth
- Telephone
- 01933350391
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
Good
Inspection date
2022-09-13
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- 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
- 39.8
- Progress 8
- -0.4
- English & maths grade 5+
- 28%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 49%
- EBacc entry
- 19%
- EBacc APS
- 3.3