Secondary
Bluecoat Beechdale Academy
Harvey Road, Bilborough, Nottingham, NG8 3GP
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 887 of 900 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
- Local authority
- Nottingham
- Trust
- ARCHWAY LEARNING TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 40.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 75.0
- Pupils per adult
- 12.0
- Pupils
- 901
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected October 2022
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
21%
25 points below the Nottingham average (46% across 42 schools)
34.0
12.5 below the Nottingham average (46.5 across 42 schools)
37th of 42 by our score, among the secondary schools in Nottingham we can score - 46 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 34 |
| EBacc average point score | 2.75 |
| Entered the EBacc | 16% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 35% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 21% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 23% |
| 22/23 | 18% |
| 23/24 | 13% |
| 24/25 | 21% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.49 |
| 22/23 | -0.65 |
| 23/24 | -0.67 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 37.8 |
| 22/23 | 33.7 |
| 23/24 | 32.4 |
| 24/25 | 34.0 |
Harvey Road, Bilborough, Nottingham, NG8 3GP
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Nottingham admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Head of School
- Rachael Frearson
- Address
- Harvey Road, Bilborough, Nottingham, NG8 3GP
- Telephone
- 01159135211