Ashfield Comprehensive School, Nottingham

Ofsted's report card from its 27 January 2026 inspection grades Ashfield Comprehensive School on 7 areas: 1 strong standard and 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Post 16 provision - Strong standard. "The post‑16 provision at Ashfield School is well respected, and its leadership is highly effective."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Typically, pupils at this school achieve well, which is reflected in their results in national examinations."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils' attendance has improved at the school."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Pupils benefit from a curriculum that enables them to study a range of academic and vocational qualifications."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Ashfield School is a welcoming and inclusive school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "The school has recently undergone changes to some senior leadership positions."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have ensured that there is a personal development programme in place that provides pupils with opportunities to understand and navigate life in modern Britain."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders should improve their oversight and analysis to better understand the impact of their work on pupils' behaviour and on the strengthening of support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. • Leaders should ensure that staff consistently adapt their teaching to provide appropriate support for pupils who need additional help, while also offering sufficient challenge for pupils to deepen their learning. • Leaders should continue to develop the school's approach to assessment and feedback so that misconceptions are addressed promptly and pupils do not repeat the same errors over time".

In 2026, pupils at Ashfield Comprehensive School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.6 in Nottinghamshire and 47 across England.

40% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 47% in Nottinghamshire and 47% in England.

That is down from 47.8 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.08: pupils made about average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 36.8, against 48.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 11.9 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 31 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and History.

For September 2026 entry, 408 families put Ashfield Comprehensive School as their first choice and 730 named it as one of their preferences, for 406 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 9 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Ashfield Comprehensive School are Sutton Community Academy (1 mile, Good, Attainment 8 39.1); Outwood Academy Kirkby (1.3 miles, Attainment 8 40.5); Quarrydale Academy (1.8 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 39.3); and Frederick Gent School (2.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 41.5).

Ashfield Comprehensive School's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Ashfield Comprehensive School is one of 10 schools run by The Two Counties Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 43.7 in 2024/25.

219 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Ashfield Comprehensive School (as of April 2026): 78% would recommend the school, 72% say their child is happy there and 50% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (78%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (50%).

Of the 412 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 83% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 36% to a further education college, 5% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

Of the 294 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 36% went on to university or other higher education, 10% to apprenticeships and 35% into work. 19% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

6.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 279 pupils (10.7%) received SEN support and 35 (1.3%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Kirkby in Ashfield Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Wentworth Road (adjacent), 210 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Ashfield Comprehensive School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Ashfield Comprehensive School issued 1006 suspensions, 38.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 3 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Ashfield Comprehensive School are Greenwood Primary and Nursery School (0.4 miles), Leamington Primary and Nursery Academy (0.5 miles), Orchard Primary School and Nursery (0.7 miles) and The West Park Academy (0.9 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.