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The Parkside School, Norwich

Special schoolAges 7–18FoundationSixth form

Norwich, NR2 3JA · Norfolk local authority

Norwich’s School Grade C better than 33% of towns in England

How full
199 pupils
117% of its 170 places
Free school meals
57%
57 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about The Parkside School, Norwich

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 199 pupils for 170 places
  • 57% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, May 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (NR2 3) sold for a median £290,000; Norwich’s is £250,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

189 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
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
6.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
54.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 36%Boys 64%
Its letter

No letter for The Parkside School, Norwich

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to 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: Standards maintained, May 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near The Parkside School, Norwich

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

Home prices in NR2 3, the school’s postcode sector

Norwich property prices →
£290,000
median sale, 531 sales in 36 months · Norwich £250,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025NR2 3Norwich
NR2 3Norwich

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£543K
Semi-detached
£344K
Terraced
£287K
Flat
£145K
NR2 3Norwich

Homes in NR2 3 sell for well over Norwich’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

27 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+C−DD−DC−ACA−B+DBDBDA−ADC+C−DBThe Parkside School, Norwich
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Norwich, NR2 3JA

The Parkside School, Norwich: common questions

What is The Parkside School, Norwich’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (May 2025).

How much do houses cost near The Parkside School, Norwich?

Homes in its postcode sector, NR2 3, sold for a median £290,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (531 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; Norwich’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.