Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy, Ilkeston

In 2026, pupils at Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 43.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45.2 in Derbyshire and 47 across England.

50% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 44% in Derbyshire and 47% in England.

That is up from 40.5 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.41: pupils made below 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 37.7, against 47.6 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.9 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 22 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were History, Combined Science and Biology.

For September 2026 entry, 227 families put Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy as their first choice and 315 named it as one of their preferences, for 208 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 19 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy are Kirk Hallam Community Academy (0.6 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 40.6); Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy (0.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 44.4); The Kimberley School (3.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 49.6); and Hall Park Academy (3.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 40.3).

Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy is one of 44 schools run by Ormiston Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 41 in 2024/25.

Of the 192 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 72% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 44% to a further education college, 8% to an apprenticeship and 5% into work.

48% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 4.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy provides for pupils with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, visual impairment, other difficulties or disabilities, hearing impairment, speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, moderate learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties.

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

5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is New Lawn Road (before), 170 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 271 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Derbyshire (50), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy issued 149 suspensions, 15.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 4 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy are Chaucer Infant School (0.5 miles), Chaucer Junior School (0.5 miles), St Thomas Catholic Voluntary Academy (0.5 miles) and Charlotte Nursery and Infant School (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.