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Girls selective secondary school in Newport, Telford and Wrekin

Newport Girls' High School Academy

Wellington Road, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 7HL

Ofsted Outstanding · 2022 Selective Sixth form Girls Full
School website 01952797550

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 1 November 2022

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 1 November 2022.

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

75.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

97% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

99% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

7.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

85% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.49confidence interval 0.18 to 0.79

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
41.8

England average 32.3

A level students
120

Pupils

Pupils on roll
884
Places
720
How full
Full — 884 pupils against 720 places
Overall absence
4%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
9%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
8%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
12%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
4%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
99%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
98%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
87%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
86

After sixth form

Went to university
77%

England 50%

In education, work or training
92%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
103

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

60% 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
95%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
96

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 Telford and Wrekin 003C, 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
34%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
74%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
9%

England 17%

Households with no car
12%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
38%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
NEWPORT GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Adam Jones
Local authority
Telford and Wrekin
Ward
Newport West
Constituency
The Wrekin
URN
136516

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Haberdashers' AdamsAcademy converter Good 2022 71.8 0.4 mi
The Burton Borough SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2021 39.7 0.5 mi
The RetreatOther independent school No grade 4.7 mi
New Road AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2022 38.6 4.8 mi
Holy Trinity AcademyVoluntary aided school Good 2023 45.9 5.6 mi
Hadley Learning Community - Secondary PhaseAcademy converter Good 2022 44.4 5.9 mi
Idsall SchoolAcademy converter No grade 41 6.3 mi
Thomas Telford SchoolCity technology college Good 2022 6.7 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
Simon Langton Grammar School for BoysFoundation school No grade 66.8
Invicta Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 70.8
George Abbot SchoolAcademy converter No grade 58.2
Herschel Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 75.8
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2023 67.7
Devonport High School for BoysAcademy converter Good 2023 69.3
Maiden Erlegh SchoolAcademy converter No grade 55.5
Howard of Effingham SchoolAcademy converter No grade 57.1

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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