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Secondary school in Bakewell, Derbyshire

Lady Manners School

Shutts Lane, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1JA

Sixth form
School website 01629812671

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 12 February 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

52.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

55% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

79% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

70% 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

0.37confidence interval 0.19 to 0.56

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
36.5

England average 32.3

A level students
100

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1405
Places
1437
How full
Nearly full — 1405 of 1437 places taken
Girls / boys
743 / 662
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
14%

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
2%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
4%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
87%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
58%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
188

After sixth form

Went to university
74%

England 50%

In education, work or training
92%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
128

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
75%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
118

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 Derbyshire Dales 011B, 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
45%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
80%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
10%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
53%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Foundation school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Gary Peat
Local authority
Derbyshire
Ward
Bakewell
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales
URN
112996

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Highfields SchoolAcademy converter No grade 47 7.4 mi
King Ecgbert SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56.1 10 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 Community College, Bishop's CastleFoundation school Good 2023 43.4
The Winston Churchill School A Specialist Sports CollegeFoundation school Good 2023 48.7
Hethersett AcademyAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2022 59
St Gregory's Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 43.8
Sybil Andrews AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 49.5
St Augustine's Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 47.3
Wolfreton School and Sixth Form CollegeAcademy converter No grade 47.6
St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 44.9

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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