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Hall Park Academy

Nottingham, NG16 3EA · Nottinghamshire · secondary school

Ofsted: Good · 2024 Inspected 2 years ago Mixed Secondary
3.1/10 Below average

36th of 45 secondary schools in Nottinghamshire we can score. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.

Its results hold up when the comparison narrows to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds — 2.4/10 against 704 of them, against 2.0/10 nationally. So this is not simply a reflection of who attends. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.

How this is worked out
MeasurePercentileWeightAdds
Ofsted 52 35% 1.81
Grade 5+ English & maths 2024/25 34.2 · 26 30% 0.78
Progress 8 2023/24 -0.73 · 7 25% 0.19
Attainment 8 2024/25 43.0 · 35 10% 0.35

Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.

Get to know the school

How it's doing. In 2024/25, 34.2% of pupils achieved Grade 5 or above in English and maths. Attainment 8 was 43.0, compared to the national median of 44.6. Progress 8 was -0.73 in 2023/24, indicating pupils did worse than peers nationally who started from the same place. Its results are much the same when the comparison narrows to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds, so the gap is not explained by intake (2.4 out of 10 against similar schools, 2.0 out of 10 against all schools). Ofsted rated the school Good in July 2024.

Beyond the classroom. Pupils visit WW1 Battlefields, Krakow, the Poland Holocaust, and the Belgium Space Centre.

Getting in. The school has 878 pupils in a capacity of 1100, leaving 222 spare places. This means the school has real spare room, so a place is likely and classes are smaller than it is built for.

Worth asking on a visit. How does the school support pupils who are falling behind in English and maths? What specific support is available for students preparing for their Progress 8 assessments? How do teachers manage class sizes to ensure individual attention in smaller groups?

Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.

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