Springwood High School

Academy converter·Secondary school King's Lynn, Norfolk·PE30 4AW
Composite score
58.6
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#1,360
National rank
#144
In East of England
#18
In Norfolk
Top 43%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
46.9
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
47%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
65%
% EBacc grade 5+
25%
EBacc average points score
4.39

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
91%
296 first choices, 271 places
First choices per place
1.09
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
538
any preference, for 271 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
1.2520221.1020231.2420241.1420251.092026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Norfolk does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Year 7 place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Springwood High School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,957
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.0%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
27.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
19.3%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,520
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
93%
274 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
86%
Apprenticeship
4%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Springwood High School at a glance

Located in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Springwood High School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 1,957 pupils aged 11 to 18. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 46.9 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 43% of secondary schools nationally.

47% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 65% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Springwood High School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 296 first choices for 271 places. After Year 11, 93% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 17.4 pupils per teacher. Springwood High School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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