Community school · Primary
Rugeley · WS15 2PA · Staffordshire
Ages 2–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 137100
The Hart School
Academy sponsor led · Rugeley · WS15 2UE
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,157
Local authority
Staffordshire
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 sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Rugeley, Staffordshire, 1,157 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 29.2%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 137100
Location
- Address
- Penkridge Bank Road
- Postcode
- WS15 2UE
- Town
- Rugeley
- County
- Staffordshire
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- District
- Cannock Chase
- Constituency
- Cannock Chase
- 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
- 1,157
- Boys / girls
- 574 / 583
- School capacity
- 1,238
- Capacity fill
- 1,157 / 1,238 (93%)
- Free school meals
- 29.2%
- FSM pupils
- 309
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: CREATIVE EDUCATION TRUST
- Academy trust
- CREATIVE EDUCATION TRUST
- Sponsor
- Creative Education Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Rachael Sandham
- Telephone
- 01889802440
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
School remains Good
Inspection date
2023-09-13
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
- 44.5
- Progress 8
- -0.1
- English & maths grade 5+
- 36%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 62%
- EBacc entry
- 17%
- EBacc APS
- 3.5