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Secondary school in Nottingham, Derbyshire

The Long Eaton School

Thoresby Road, Long Eaton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG10 3NP

Ofsted Requires improvement · 2024 Sixth form
School website 01159732438

Ofsted

Requires improvementas at 28 February 2024

Graded Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 28 February 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

42.1 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

36% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

58% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

9% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.33confidence interval -0.54 to -0.13

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
25.2

England average 32.3

A level students
43

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1121
Places
1237
How full
91% full — 1121 of 1237 places taken
Girls / boys
545 / 576
Overall absence
10%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
25%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
37%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
6%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
19%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
84%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
72%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
31%
No sustained destination
9%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
159

After sixth form

Went to university
70%

England 50%

In education, work or training
93%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
20%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
46

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

12% 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
60%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
67

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 Erewash 015F, 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
25%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
58%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
27%

England 17%

Households with no car
21%

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
ARCHWAY LEARNING TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Mark Shipman
Local authority
Derbyshire
Ward
Wilsthorpe
Constituency
Erewash
URN
136716

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Trent CollegeOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
Wilsthorpe SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 50.5 0.8 mi
George Spencer AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 51.7 2.1 mi
Friesland SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 44.1 2.2 mi
Chilwell SchoolFoundation school Good 2024 50.2 2.7 mi
Alderman White SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 53.6 3.1 mi
Bramcote CollegeAcademy converter Good 2024 51.3 3.6 mi
Castle Donington CollegeAcademy converter Good 2024 48.2 4.2 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
Spen Valley High SchoolFoundation school Good 2022 35.7
Bentley Wood High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 58.5
President Kennedy School AcademyAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 43.2
Harris Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 42.5
Darwen Vale High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 43.1
The Spires CollegeFoundation school Good 2022 44.5
The Dean AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 43.1
All Saints Church of England AcademyAcademy converter No grade 54.6

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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