Hartshill Academy

Academy converter·Secondary school Nuneaton, Warwickshire·CV10 0NA
Composite score
51.2
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#2,382
National rank
#267
In West Midlands
#30
In Warwickshire
Top 75%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
41.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
41%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
58%
% EBacc grade 5+
5%
EBacc average points score
3.54

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
168 first choices, 181 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
309
any preference, for 181 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02
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1 per place
n/a2022n/a20230.7320240.9520250.932026

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

Every child who put Hartshill 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
990
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
38.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
6.5%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
15.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
39.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.3
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,352
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

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Location

Hartshill Academy at a glance

Located in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Hartshill Academy is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 990 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 41.0 — below the national average (national average: 46). On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

41% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 58% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Hartshill Academy their first choice was offered one of its 181 Year 7 places. Overall pupil absence was 15.1%. There are about 18.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 38% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. If you are considering Hartshill Academy, 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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