City Academy Norwich

General Info

Education Phase
Secondary, 16 plus
Ofsted rating
Requires improvement
Jun 19 2024 Ofsted report
Gender
Mixed
Age range
11 - 19 y.o.
Type
Academies
Funding
State-funded secondary
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Religious Character
Does not apply
Sixth Form
Has a sixth form
Local authority
Norfolk
Unique reference
135904
Address
299 Bluebell Road, NR4 7LP

Pupils

Number of Pupils
699 (63% of total capacity)
Boys
50.6%
Girls
49.4%
First language not English
19.6%
Free school meals (FSM)
52.2%
Persistent absence
40.8%
Special education needs (SEN)
22.7%
Pupil ethnicities
White British 71.1%
Other White 8.6%
Mixed 7.4%
Unclassified 3.7%
African 3%
Other 3%
Indian 1.4%
Gypsy/Roma 0.6%
Irish 0.4%
Other Black 0.3%
Bangladeshi 0.1%
Other Asian 0.1%
Caribbean 0.1%
Capacity %: Year 2022-2023 Persistent absence and other Pupils data: Year 2023-2024

Exam Results

GCSE Results

Progress 8 score

This school
-0.7
Local authority average, state-funded schools
-0.01
England average, state-funded schools
-0.03

Entering EBacc

School 13%
Local authority average 42%
England average 39%

Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

School 19%
Local authority average 42%
England average 45%

Attainment 8 score

School 34
Local authority average 44.7
England average 46.3

EBacc average point score

School 2.79
Local authority average 3.97
England average 4.05
Year 2022-2023

Subjects

GCSE Subjects

SubjectQualificationNumber of entries
Speech & DramaTechnical Award6
ArabicGCSE1
Art & DesignGCSE37
Computer Studies/ComputingGCSE24
English LanguageGCSE123
English LiteratureGCSE123
FrenchGCSE1
GeographyGCSE45
HistoryGCSE79
MathematicsGCSE123
Year 2022-2023

Admissions

City Academy Norwich

Admission Policy
Non-selective
Total available places
129
Status
Not oversubscribed
This school is Not Oversubscribed because there were fewer 1st preference applications than available places.

Applications

1st preference
97
2nd preference
38
3rd preference
23
From another Local Authority
1
Breakdown of applications made to this school within the deadline (in-year applications are excluded)

Offers

1st preference
97
2nd preference
6
3rd preference
4
To another Local Authority
0
Breakdown of offers made on National Offer Day (in-year applications are excluded)
Year 2024-2025

Class sizes

Class typeClass size
Average size of one-teacher classes24.2
Year 2023-2024

Cohort sizes

Class type
Total
Boys
Girls
Year 7
138
70
68
Year 8
148
86
62
Year 9
133
64
69
Year 10
138
60
78
Year 11
142
74
68
Year 2023-2024

Participation in Education, Training, Employment

Destinations after GCSEs
School
LA
England
Staying in education
70.0%
85.0%
86.5%
Further education
62.0%
41.4%
34.7%
School sixth form
7.0%
35.3%
37.9%
Sixth form college
0.0%
7.4%
13.1%
Other education destinations
1.0%
0.8%
0.9%
Entering employment
8.0%
5.0%
3.9%
Entering apprenticeships
3.0%
3.6%
3.4%
Not in education or employment
18.0%
5.7%
5.2%
Destination unknown
1.0%
0.7%
1.0%
School: Year 2022-2023 Local authority: Year 2021-2022 England: Year 2021-2022

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