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Nine Maidens Alternative Provision Academy

Alternative provisionAges 5–16Academy

near Four Lanes, TR16 6ND · Cornwall local authority

Four Lanes’s School Grade B− better than 52% of towns in England

How full
59 pupils
97% of its 61 places
Free school meals
70%
70 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Nine Maidens Alternative Provision Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 70% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, July 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • Outside any built-up area: listed with Four Lanes, the nearest town
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TR16 6) sold for a median £260,000; Four Lanes’s is £235,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

50 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
84%England 15.3%
EHC plan
14%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
74%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 30%Boys 70%
Its letter

No letter for Nine Maidens Alternative Provision Academy

Alternative provision isn’t given a letter: pupils come for part of their schooling, so results don’t compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, July 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Nine Maidens Alternative Provision Academy

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in TR16 6, the school’s postcode sector

Four Lanes property prices →
£260,000
median sale, 148 sales in 36 months · Four Lanes £235,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025TR16 6Four Lanes
TR16 6Four Lanes

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£338K
Semi-detached
£255K
Terraced
£230K
TR16 6Four Lanes

Homes in TR16 6 sell for a little over Four Lanes’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

2 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBB+Nine Maidens Alternative Pr…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

near Four Lanes, TR16 6ND

Nine Maidens Alternative Provision Academy: common questions

What is Nine Maidens Alternative Provision Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (July 2022).

How much do houses cost near Nine Maidens Alternative Provision Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, TR16 6, sold for a median £260,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (148 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Four Lanes’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.