Manor School

Academy converter·Secondary school Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire·NN9 6PA
Composite score
50.0
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#2,510
National rank
#209
In East Midlands
#14
In North Northamptonshire
Top 79%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
40.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
31%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
52%
% EBacc grade 5+
7%
EBacc average points score
3.28

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Inadequate
Quality of education
Inadequate
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
100 first choices, 104 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
149
any preference, for 104 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320220.8620230.9320240.9220250.962026

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

Every child who put Manor School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–19
Pupils on roll
967
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
6.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.7%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.6%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
32.0%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.8
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,524
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
91%
171 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
81%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
7%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Manor School at a glance

Located in Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire, Manor School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 967 pupils aged 11 to 19. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Inadequate' at its most recent inspection. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 40.0 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.8 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

31% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 52% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Manor School their first choice was offered one of its 104 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 91% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.5%. There are about 22.8 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Manor School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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