The Nottinghamshire schools whose pupils performed particularly well in their GCSEs this year have now been named.
The government’s brand new preliminary performance figures for state-funded secondary schools were released last week, with primary school and sixth form data expected to follow shortly. Using this data, we’ve created a league table ranking the top state secondary schools across the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County council areas for the 2023/24 school year - based on their latest Progress 8 scores.
This is a unique figure based on GCSE results and other student achievements, which demonstrates how well a secondary school’s pupils developed their skills compared to peers starting from similar primary schools nationwide. Any score above 0 is positive, but we’ve selected only those above with scores considered to be above or well above average.
We’ve also made sure that all schools included on the list also had an overall Ofsted rating of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ before this measure was recently dropped, or, if they’ve been inspected more recently, had passing marks across the board. This means that the quality of education, student behaviour and attitudes, school leadership and management, and safeguarding all met or exceeded government standards the last time the school was inspected.
Here are the 12 Nottinghamshire schools that topped the chart:
9. The Minster School
The Minster is an Anglican all-through school in Southwell, which takes pupils from the age of 7. It was formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it had a Progress 8 score of 0.30 - or ‘above average’. | Google
10. Nottingham Free School
This is a secondary school and sixth form in Nottingham’s Sherwood area, formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it had a Progress 8 score of 0.29 - placing it in the ‘above average’ band. | Google
11. Nottingham Girls' Academy
This is a girls’ secondary school and sixth form in the Aspley area, Nottingham. It was formerly rated ‘outstanding’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it had a Progress 8 score of 0.22. While this would usually be in the ‘above average’ band, the school was rated ‘average’ because its confidence interval spanned both above and below 0. | Google
12. George Spencer Academy
Rounding out the list is another school in the Spencer Academies Trust, this one a secondary school and sixth form in Stapleford, in the Broxtowe borough. It was formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. In the 2023/24 school year, it had a Progress 8 score of 0.20 - squeezing it into the ‘above average’ band. | Google