Newport Girls' High School Academy, Newport

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In 2026, pupils at Newport Girls' High School Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 74.4, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.9 in Telford and Wrekin and 47 across England.

97% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 45% in Telford and Wrekin and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 75.3.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.49: pupils made above 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 66, against 75.1 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.1 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 17 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Biology, Physics and Chemistry.

Newport Girls' High School Academy is a grammar school: places go to children who reach the required standard in its entrance test, and only then are the oversubscription criteria applied.

For September 2026 entry, 227 families put Newport Girls' High School Academy as their first choice and 436 named it as one of their preferences, for 119 places offered. That is 1.9 first choices for every place. 116 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Newport Girls' High School Academy admits pupils through an entrance test, usually called the 11-plus. Children have to be registered for it in advance, normally in the spring or summer of Year 5; the test itself is usually sat in September of Year 6, and results come out in October, before the 31 October deadline for naming secondary schools.

Passing the test makes a child eligible rather than guaranteeing a place: when more children pass than there are places, Newport Girls' High School Academy ranks them by the criteria in its admissions policy, which can include test score and distance. Check Telford and Wrekin's admissions pages and the school's own policy for this year's registration deadline - a child who is not registered in time cannot sit the test.

Telford and Wrekin has 2 state grammar schools in all, so a child who passes may have several selective schools to choose between.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Newport Girls' High School Academy are Haberdashers' Adams (0.4 miles, Good, selective, Attainment 8 73.9); The Burton Borough School (0.5 miles, Attainment 8 43.3); New Road Academy (4.8 miles, Attainment 8 35); and Hadley Learning Community - Secondary Phase (5.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47).

Newport Girls' High School Academy's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Newport Girls' High School Academy is run by its own single-school academy trust.

Of the 88 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 97% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 5% to a further education college and 1% into work.

Of the 96 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 79% went on to university or other higher education, 3% to apprenticeships and 6% into work. 44% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 27 pupils (3.1%) received SEN support and 2 (0.2%) 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 autism.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Newport Girls' High School Academy.

15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Girls High School (adjacent), 70 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Newport Girls' High School Academy stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 78 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Telford and Wrekin (139).

In 2024/25, Newport Girls' High School Academy issued 7 suspensions, 0.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Newport Girls' High School Academy are Moorfield Primary School (under 0.1 miles), Newport Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School (0.3 miles), Newport Infant School and Nursery (0.3 miles) and Church Aston Infant School (0.4 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.