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Secondary school in Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire

Manor School

Mountbatten Way, Raunds, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 6PA

Ofsted Inadequate · 2024 Sixth form
School website 01933623921

Ofsted

Inadequateas at 16 July 2024

Graded Inadequate at its last graded inspection, on 16 July 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

40 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

31% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

52% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

16% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 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 bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.32confidence interval -0.54 to -0.11

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below 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
C+
Average points per entry
32.4

England average 32.3

A level students
52

Pupils

Pupils on roll
851
Places
900
How full
95% full — 851 of 900 places taken
Girls / boys
419 / 432
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
29%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
23%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
91%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
81%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
40%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
171

After sixth form

Went to university
46%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
69

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

16% 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
58%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
83

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 North Northamptonshire 025C, 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
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
81%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
6%

England 17%

Households with no car
8%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
30%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
NENE EDUCATION TRUST
Headteacher
Principal: Adam Crawte
Local authority
North Northamptonshire
Ward
Raunds
Constituency
Corby and East Northamptonshire
URN
137613

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Progress Schools - ThrapstonOther independent school No grade 3.4 mi
The Ferrers SchoolAcademy converter No grade 38.9 3.6 mi
Huxlow AcademyAcademy converter No grade 41.9 3.9 mi
Rushden AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 41.6 4.4 mi
Kimbolton SchoolOther independent school No grade 6.8 mi
RefocusOther independent school No grade 7.2 mi
Sir Christopher Hatton AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 50.2 7.3 mi
Wellingborough SchoolOther independent school No grade 7.3 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
Blatchington Mill SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 51
Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College SouthamptonVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2023 60
Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form CentreAcademy converter Good 2022 48.1
Preston School AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 45.9
Priestlands SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 48.8
Hinchingbrooke SchoolAcademy converter Good 2021 50.3
Helston Community CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 43.6
George Stephenson High SchoolFoundation school No grade 48

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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