All-through
Billing Brook Special School
Penistone Road, Lumbertubs, Northampton, NN3 8EZ
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Academy special converter
- Ages
- 4 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 257 of 220 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 6.8
- Local authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- BILLING BROOK SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 38.2
- All staff (FTE)
- 113.3
- Pupils per adult
- 2.3
- Pupils
- 261
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 March 2025
Standards maintained
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
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | 0% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| 24/25 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -1.96 |
| 23/24 | -1.76 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0.6 |
| 23/24 | 0.3 |
Penistone Road, Lumbertubs, Northampton, NN3 8EZ
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 15 January, the year before starting.
West Northamptonshire 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
- Headteacher
- Nikki Kennedy
- Address
- Penistone Road, Lumbertubs, Northampton, NN3 8EZ
- Telephone
- 01604773910