Flegg High Ormiston Academy

Academy converter·Secondary school Great Yarmouth, Norfolk·NR29 4QD
Composite score
52.5
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#2,230
National rank
#246
In East of England
#37
In Norfolk
Top 70%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
42.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
40%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
63%
% EBacc grade 5+
10%
EBacc average points score
3.68

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
77 first choices, 81 places
First choices per place
0.95
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
135
any preference, for 81 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9820220.9520230.9720240.9620250.952026

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

Every child who put Flegg High Ormiston Academy 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
11–16
Pupils on roll
685
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.5%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
3.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
34.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.6
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,927
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%
142 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
87%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Flegg High Ormiston Academy is a secondary school serving Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 685 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 42.0 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 2.4 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

40% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 63% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Flegg High Ormiston Academy their first choice was offered one of its 81 Year 7 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 10.8%. There are about 16.6 pupils per teacher. Flegg High Ormiston Academy 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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