Nottingham Free School

Ofsted

▲Good (2022) — Ungraded inspection — “School remains Good” (previous grade confirmed, not re-graded)

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 9 November 2022, published 18 January 2023. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Oversubscribed — 1.54 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• ▲Bluecoat Trent Academy 1.2 km · Good (2024) · previous system
• –Djanogly City Academy 1.5 km · No overall grade (2024)
• ▲The Wells Academy 2 km · Most areas: Expected standard (2026)
• ▲Ellis Guilford School 2 km · Good (2023) · previous system
• ▲Bluecoat Aspley Academy 2.5 km · Good — confirmed 2024 · previous system
• ●Nottingham Girls' Academy 3.1 km · Outstanding (2023) · previous system

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.