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New Road Academy

Secondary · Telford · TF2 7AB

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Requires improvement

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: Requires improvementBehaviour & attitudes: Requires improvementPersonal development: Requires improvementLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 29 March 2022

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At a glance

1,073 pupils · 89% of 1,200 capacity

School type
Academy sponsor led
Age range
11–16
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
48.1% of pupils
English as additional language
20.8% of pupils
SEN support
20.7% of pupils
EHC plan
2.9% of pupils
Website
https://newroad.lct.education
URN
150811

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

0.67 first-choice applications per place

180 places offered · 120 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

24/25
25/26
26/27

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

GCSE results (2024/2025)

227 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025

Attainment 8 score
38.6
England 46.1
Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs
37.4%
England 64.8%
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs
24.2%
England 45.4%
EBacc average point score
3.1
England 4.1

Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
13.3%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
38.8%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
19.3
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

85% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 8% left the state-funded sector

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£7,903
Typical secondary school£7,799

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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