The Kimberley School
Kimberley, NG16 2NJ · Nottinghamshire local authority
Kimberley’s School Grade B− better than 49% of towns in England
What stands out about The Kimberley School
- Its own letter, B+: GCSE results better than 67% of England’s secondary schools
- Ofsted: Good, September 2022 (shown, not graded)
- 91% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (227 of 249)
- Progress 8 of +0.07 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did about as well at GCSE as pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (NG16 2) sold for a median £235,000; Kimberley’s is £235,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 233 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools The Kimberley beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 49.6
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 67% of schools · Nottinghamshire avg 46.6
Grade 5+ in English and maths 51%
A strong pass · higher than 64% of schools · Nottinghamshire avg 47%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
+0.07: about average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 50 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at The Kimberley School?
91% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (30), 2020 (29), 2021 (26), 2022 (27), 2023 (46), 2024 (52), 2025 (22), 2026 (22). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. East Midlands Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Nottinghamshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
91% got their first choice
Kimberley and Nottinghamshire, side by side
2025/26All 45 graded secondaries in Nottinghamshire. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Kimberley’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The West Bridgford School | A | 7% | 61.4 |
| Rushcliffe Spencer Academy | A | 12% | 58.3 |
| Carlton le Willows Academy | A | 26% | 56.5 |
| The Minster School | A | 11% | 55.5 |
| Toot Hill School | A | 16% | 55.2 |
| Alderman White School | A− | 25% | 53.2 |
| South Nottinghamshire Academy | B+ | 21% | 52.9 |
| George Spencer Academy | A− | 20% | 52.6 |
| The Becket School | A− | 19% | 52.3 |
| All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Academy | B+ | 20% | 51.5 |
| The South Wolds Academy & Sixth Form | B+ | 17% | 51.3 |
| Bramcote College | B+ | 27% | 50.7 |
| Chilwell School | A− | 22% | 50.3 |
| Carlton Academy | B+ | 26% | 50.2 |
| The Kimberley School | B+ | 22% | 49.6 |
| East Leake Academy | B+ | 20% | 49.5 |
| Colonel Frank Seely Academy | B | 24% | 49.2 |
| Redhill Academy | B | 25% | 49.1 |
| The Newark Academy | B+ | 28% | 49.1 |
| Serlby Park Academy | B+ | 40% | 48.7 |
| Outwood Academy Valley | B+ | 25% | 48.1 |
| Arnold Hill Spencer Academy | B+ | 21% | 47.8 |
| Christ The King Voluntary Academy | B− | 28% | 46.8 |
| Outwood Academy Portland | B− | 30% | 46.6 |
| The Garibaldi School | B | 26% | 46.1 |
| The National CofE Academy | B− | 23% | 45.9 |
| The Joseph Whitaker School | B− | 24% | 45.7 |
| The Brunts Academy | C+ | 30% | 45.4 |
| Ashfield Comprehensive School | C+ | 31% | 45.2 |
| The Manor Academy | C+ | 30% | 43.8 |
| Tuxford Academy | C | 23% | 43.7 |
| The Suthers School | C+ | 27% | 43.6 |
| The Elizabethan Academy | C+ | 28% | 42.9 |
| Meden School | C | 40% | 42 |
| Retford Oaks Academy | C− | 33% | 40.8 |
| Outwood Academy Kirkby | C− | 49% | 40.5 |
| Magnus Church of England Academy | C− | 46% | 40.4 |
| Hall Park Academy | C− | 33% | 40.3 |
| Selston High School | C− | 32% | 40.1 |
| Quarrydale Academy | D | 39% | 39.3 |
| Sutton Community Academy | C− | 46% | 39.1 |
| The Holgate Academy | D | 39% | 36.6 |
| Sherwood Church Academy | D | 34% | 36 |
| The Dukeries Academy | D− | 43% | 32.6 |
| Queen Elizabeth's Academy | D− | 41% | 32.3 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 20251,384 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.
Girls and boys
The Kimberley School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, September 2022.
Living near The Kimberley School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in NG16 2, the school’s postcode sector
Kimberley property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in NG16 2 sell for about the same as Kimberley’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
9 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Kimberley, NG16 2NJ
The Kimberley School: common questions
Is The Kimberley School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its GCSE results are better than 67% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B+), with an Attainment 8 of 49.6 and 51% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, September 2022.
How hard is it to get into The Kimberley School?
For September 2026, 249 families put The Kimberley School first and 227 of them were offered a place; 239 places were offered in all.
What is The Kimberley School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (September 2022).
How much do houses cost near The Kimberley School?
Homes in its postcode sector, NG16 2, sold for a median £235,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (814 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; Kimberley’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.
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