Idsall School

Academy converter·Secondary school Shifnal, Shropshire·TF11 8PD
Composite score
51.2
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#2,382
National rank
#267
In West Midlands
#16
In Shropshire
Top 75%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
41.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
32%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
56%
% EBacc grade 5+
1%
EBacc average points score
3.35

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
98%
170 first choices, 197 places
First choices per place
0.86
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
277
any preference, for 197 places
Applications from another council area
38%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Idsall School yet. Shropshire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,170
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
3.9%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.1%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
22.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.0
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,832
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
95%
222 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
86%
Apprenticeship
6%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Location

Idsall School at a glance

Located in Shifnal, Shropshire, Idsall School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 1,170 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 41.0, below the national average of 46. Results have held broadly steady on 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.

32% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 56% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 98% of the families who made Idsall School their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.2%. There are about 17.0 pupils per teacher. Idsall 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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