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Djanogly City Academy
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Djanogly City Academy

SecondaryAges 11–19AcademySixth form

Nottingham, NG7 6ND · Nottingham local authority

Nottingham’s School Grade C+ better than 39% of towns in England

Photo: ClemRutter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Its letter
10%
of England’s secondaries have lower GCSE results
Getting in
150/150
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 84%)
How full
1,270 pupils
169% of its 750 places
Free school meals
47%
47 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about Djanogly City Academy

  • Its own letter, D: GCSE results near the bottom of England’s secondary schools (better than 10%)
  • 28% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 19 points below England’s schools
  • Over capacity: 1,270 pupils for 750 places
  • 47% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 30%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, December 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (150 of 150)
  • Progress 8 of -0.13 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 (NG7 6) sold for a median £150,000; Nottingham’s is £194,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 222 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Djanogly City beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 37

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 8% of schools · Nottingham avg 44.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3Djanogly City 37

Grade 5+ in English and maths 28%

A strong pass · higher than 12% of schools · Nottingham avg 43%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Djanogly City 28%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
40.5
2024/25
38
2025/26
37

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-0.13: 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 113 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
30.9England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
43.4England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths48%
England’s schools 66% · Nottingham 62% · a standard pass

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Djanogly City Academy?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

150
families put it first for September 2026
238
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s secondaries: 84%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2022 (6), 2023 (8), 2024 (3). 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. Tapestry Learning Partnership sets the admissions rules. Apply through Nottingham council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for secondary schools in Nottingham, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.62 per place
55% got their first choice
1.54 per place
61% got their first choice
1.47 per place
57% got their first choice
1.45 per place
67% got their first choice
1.21 per place
64% got their first choice
1.12 per place
83% got their first choice
1.11 per place
74% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
Djanogly City
0.63 per place
100% got their first choice

Nottingham and Nottingham, side by side

2025/26

All 19 graded secondaries in Nottingham. 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. Nottingham’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35394347515510%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →Attainment 8 →Djanogly City
ABCDElsewhere in NottinghamDjanogly City
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsAttainment 8
Fernwood SchoolA18%54.6
The Trinity Catholic School A Voluntary AcademyA−25%54.4
Bluecoat Wollaton AcademyA−39%53.4
Nottingham Free SchoolA−28%52
Nottingham University Academy of Science and TechnologyA−35%51.5
Nottingham Girls' AcademyB+43%48.8
Park Vale AcademyB−45%46.2
Bluecoat Aspley AcademyB−45%45.8
The Oakwood AcademyB−42%44.7
The Nottingham Emmanuel SchoolC47%44.1
Nottingham University Samworth AcademyC52%39.9
Nottingham AcademyC−44%39.9
Bluecoat Trent AcademyC−55%39.7
The Bulwell AcademyC−56%39.6
Ellis Guilford SchoolC−46%39.5
The Wells AcademyD47%38.7
Farnborough Spencer AcademyC−43%37.9
Djanogly City AcademyD47%37
Bluecoat Beechdale AcademyD−68%36.6

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

1,246 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
12.8%England 14%
EHC plan
0.4%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
77.2%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
49.1%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 41%Boys 59%
Its letter

Djanogly City Academy’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths DBetter than 10% of 3,224 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

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

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), December 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Djanogly City Academy

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

Home prices in NG7 6, the school’s postcode sector

Nottingham property prices →
£150,000
median sale, 145 sales in 36 months · Nottingham £194,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025NG7 6Nottingham
NG7 6Nottingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£332K
Semi-detached
£195K
Terraced
£148K
Flat
£127K
NG7 6Nottingham

Homes in NG7 6 sell for well under Nottingham’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

31 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCC−C−BAC−DB−B+C−A+C+A+CB−B+DC−CC+CAA−BC+C−B−C−DC−DDDjanogly City Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Nottingham, NG7 6ND

Djanogly City Academy: common questions

Is Djanogly City Academy a good school?

By its published results, well below average: its GCSE results are better than 10% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is D), with an Attainment 8 of 37 and 28% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, December 2024.

How hard is it to get into Djanogly City Academy?

For September 2026, 150 families put Djanogly City Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 238 places were offered in all.

What is Djanogly City Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (December 2024).

How much do houses cost near Djanogly City Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, NG7 6, sold for a median £150,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (145 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; Nottingham’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.