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Secondary school in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

George Spencer Academy

Arthur Mee Road, Stapleford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG9 7EW

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Full
School website 01159170100

Ofsted

Goodas at 21 March 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 21 March 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

51.7 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

56% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

78% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

62% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.20confidence interval 0.03 to 0.37

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
37.9

England average 32.3

A level students
120

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1580
Places
1430
How full
Full — 1580 pupils against 1430 places
Girls / boys
792 / 788
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
21%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
18%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
15%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
6%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
87%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
43%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
270

After sixth form

Went to university
57%

England 50%

In education, work or training
93%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
8%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
96

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

31% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
71%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
128

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Broxtowe 010D, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
30%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
18%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
82%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
16%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE SPENCER ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Principal: Helen Corbett
Local authority
Nottinghamshire
Ward
Stapleford South West
Constituency
Broxtowe
URN
136291

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Alderman White SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 53.6 1.2 mi
Bramcote CollegeAcademy converter Good 2024 51.3 1.4 mi
Wilsthorpe SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 50.5 1.6 mi
Friesland SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 44.1 1.6 mi
Trent CollegeOther independent school No grade 1.6 mi
Chilwell SchoolFoundation school Good 2024 50.2 1.6 mi
The Long Eaton SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 42.1 2.1 mi
Fernwood SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 53.8 2.7 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
The Latimer Arts CollegeFoundation school Good 2023 44.8
Sheldon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 45.2
Sawston Village CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 55.5
Great Marlow SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 47.9
The Blue Coat CofE SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 59.1
Formby High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 54.3
Birchwood High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 46.1
Loreto CollegeAcademy converter No grade 58.3

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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