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Fernwood School

URN
136724
Phase
Secondary
Status
Open

School overview

School name
Fernwood School
URN
136724
Phase
Secondary
Gender
Mixed
Age range
11-16
Status
Open

School Compass Score

Excellent

83 / 100

Excellent

Based on official data for academic year 2024/25.

Academic Outcomes

79

Inspection

100

Admissions Value

74

Destinations

56

Stability & Context

100

School Compass rankings

Top 25% of secondary schools in England

Top 25% nationally

#2 of 16 schools in Nottingham

Based on School Compass rankings calculated from performance, inspection, admissions and destination data.

School Compass recommendation

Consider

This school has a mixed profile and may warrant further investigation.

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Based on School Compass analysis of official performance, inspection, admissions and destination data.

Admissions strategy

  • Application category: Target school
  • Admissions pressure: High competition
  • Admissions risk: High risk

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Crime & Safety

  • Safety score: Safe
  • National comparison: Lower crime than average
  • Crime trend: Stable trend
  • Confidence: High confidence

Higher share of violent and serious offences than typical

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Available in the full Parent Report:

  • Crime categories in the surrounding area
  • Local authority and nearby-school comparisons
  • Safety trends over the past year
  • Area context and confidence notes

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Area crime data reflects the surrounding neighbourhood — it is not a measure of school safeguarding or on-site safety.

  • Area crime data reflects the surrounding neighbourhood — it is not a measure of school safeguarding or on-site safety.
  • This section reflects police-recorded crime in the surrounding area, not incidents on school premises.
  • Figures are anonymised by the police and aggregated within approximately one mile of the school site.

Question 1: Is it a good school?

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Your decision briefing for Fernwood School

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Question 2

Can we realistically get in?

  • Data confidence: Moderate confidence
  • Admissions pressure: Competitive
  • Personalised application strategy available
  • 8 alternative schools identified

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  • Competitiveness on published admissions data
  • Demand trends over recent admission cycles
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  • Last admitted distance
  • Catchment boundaries
  • Postcode-specific likelihood
  • Offer probability
  • Waiting list position
  • Priority rules
  • Grammar / selective cut-offs

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Can we realistically get in?

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Admissions strategy for Fernwood School

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Ofsted inspections

Previous inspection framework
Latest publication date
24 April 2024
Inspection date
12 March 2024
Inspection type
S5 Inspection
Category of concern
None recorded
SafeguardingNot available

Inspection outcomes

  • Overall effectiveness

    Outstanding

    Graded 24 April 2024

  • Quality of education

    Outstanding

    Graded 24 April 2024

  • Behaviour and attitudes

Admissions

High pressure

Official Department for Education applications and offers data for Secondary Transfer in academic year 2025/26.

Academic year

Academic year

2025/26

Published admission number (PAN)

Published admission number (PAN)

278

Places offered by the school

Applications received

Applications received

656

Times listed as any preference

Offers made

Offers made

278

Preferred offers from this school

Oversubscription ratio

Oversubscription ratio

2.36×

Applications per place

Offer rate

Where to apply

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Local authority
Nottingham
Admissions portal
GOV.UK — apply for a secondary school place (Nottingham)
Application deadline
31 October 2026 (on-time deadline for secondary entry, September 2027)
School website
http://www.fernwoodschool.org.uk/

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Performance & outcomes

Official Department for Education attainment and outcomes data. Suppressed or unpublished figures are shown as “Not published”.

Key stage 4 (secondary)

Key stage 4 (secondary) data for academic year 2024/25

Official Department for Education key stage 4 performance for academic year 2024/25. Progress 8 is not published for this academic year.

Attainment 8

Attainment 8

53.8

Progress 8

Progress 8

Not published

English and maths grade 5 or above

English & maths 5+

63.0%

English and maths grade 4 or above

English & maths 4+

79.8%

EBacc entry

EBacc entry

34.7%

EBacc achievement

Location

NG8 2FT - Goodwood Road, Wollaton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Contact details

Address
Goodwood Road, Wollaton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Postcode
NG8 2FT
Phone
1159286326
Website
http://www.fernwoodschool.org.uk/
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Administrative details

Local authority name
Nottingham
Local authority code
892

School insights

Local authority context

This school is one of 298 schools in Nottingham.

Authority statistics

Total schools

298

Open schools

118

Closed schools

179

Primary schools

181

Data quality

Last updated
14 June 2026
Last imported
14 June 2026

Dates reflect the latest GIAS import and any recorded closure date for this school.

The School Compass Score combines academic outcomes, inspection findings, admissions value, destinations, and school stability to help parents compare schools consistently.

  • Not all crime is reported to the police. Small areas can vary significantly year to year.
  • Source: data.police.uk under the Open Government Licence; population from ONS.
  • Outstanding

    Graded 24 April 2024

  • Personal development

    Good

    Graded 24 April 2024

  • Leadership and management

    Outstanding

    Graded 24 April 2024

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    Inspection history

    Showing the last 1 inspection on record, including monitoring visits.

    PublishedInspectedTypeSummaryReport
    24 April 202412 March 2024S5 InspectionOutstandingView report for inspection published 24 April 2024
    • Outstanding

      Published
      24 April 2024
      Inspected
      12 March 2024
      Type
      S5 Inspection
      Report
      View report

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted management information via GOV.UK.

    Offer rate

    42.4%

    Offers as a share of applications

    First preference offers: 271

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education school applications and offers statistics.

    EBacc achievement

    20.5%

    Key stage 4 destinations

    Key stage 4 destinations data for leaver academic year 2022/23

    Sustained destination measures for pupils who completed key stage 4 in 2022/23 (destinations in 2023/24).

    Education destination

    Education %

    92.0%

    Employment destination

    Employment %

    0.0%

    Apprenticeship destination

    Apprenticeships %

    2.0%

    Not in education, employment or training

    NEET %

    5.0%

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education performance and outcomes statistics (England).

    Secondary schools

    49

    Special schools

    0

    Phase distribution

    • Primary181 (61.8%)
    • Secondary49 (16.7%)
    • Special0 (0.0%)
    • Other63 (21.5%)

    Nearby schools

    School nameDistancePhaseStatus
    Fernwood School0 mSecondaryClosed
    Fernwood Primary School163 mPrimaryOpen
    Fernwood Junior School263 mPrimaryClosed
    Fernwood Infant School263 mPrimaryClosed
    Firbeck Primary and Nursery School with Individual Needs Centre for Deaf Children879 mPrimaryClosed
    Firbeck Academy879 mPrimaryOpen
    Portland Primary and Nursery School970 mPrimaryClosed
    Portland Spencer Academy970 mPrimaryOpen
    William Sharp School1.2 kmSecondaryClosed
    Nottingham University Samworth Academy1.2 kmSecondaryOpen
    • Fernwood School
      Distance
      0 m
      Phase
      Secondary
      Status
      Closed
    • Fernwood Primary School
      Distance
      163 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Open
    • Fernwood Junior School
      Distance
      263 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Closed
    • Fernwood Infant School
      Distance
      263 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Closed
    • Firbeck Primary and Nursery School with Individual Needs Centre for Deaf Children

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    Same phase (Secondary) and local authority (Nottingham)

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    Alderman Derbyshire Comprehensive SchoolSecondaryNG6 8AQClosed
    Big Wood SchoolSecondaryNG5 9PJClosed
    Bluecoat Aspley AcademySecondaryNG8 5GYOpen
    Bluecoat Beechdale AcademySecondaryNG8 3GPOpen
    Bluecoat Trent AcademySecondaryNG5 1AJOpen
    • Alderman Derbyshire Comprehensive School
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      NG6 8AQ
      Status
      Closed
    • Big Wood School
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      NG5 9PJ
      Status
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    • Bluecoat Aspley Academy
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      NG8 5GY
      Status
      Open
    • Bluecoat Beechdale Academy
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      NG8 3GP
      Status
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    • Bluecoat Trent Academy
    Distance
    879 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Closed
  • Firbeck Academy
    Distance
    879 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Open
  • Portland Primary and Nursery School
    Distance
    970 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Closed
  • Portland Spencer Academy
    Distance
    970 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Open
  • William Sharp School
    Distance
    1.2 km
    Phase
    Secondary
    Status
    Closed
  • Nottingham University Samworth Academy
    Distance
    1.2 km
    Phase
    Secondary
    Status
    Open
  • Phase
    Secondary
    Postcode
    NG5 1AJ
    Status
    Open