Lodge Park Academy

About Lodge Park Academy

Lodge Park Academy is a mixed state secondary and sixth form in North Northamptonshire, serving 799 pupils aged 11 to 18. Within its local authority, it ranks 19th out of 20 schools of the same type, placing it in the bottom 5% locally. The top-performing peers in the area include Bishop Stopford School, Brooke Weston Academy, and Kettering Buccleuch Academy, all of which achieve significantly higher Progress 8 scores. The school has a high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 35.5%, well above the national average, and operates at roughly 65% of its capacity of 1,230 places. Oversubscription is marginal: for the 2025/26 intake, the school received 91 applications for 87 places, with 42 first-preference offers made. Headteacher Jonathon Kirby leads a school that, in its most recent Ofsted inspection in November 2023, was rated Requires Improvement overall, though several individual areas were graded Good.

Academically, the school’s Progress 8 score for the 2023/24 academic year stands at -0.63, which is well below the local authority average of -0.02 and places it in the bottom 50 nationally. Attainment 8 sits at 33.2, and the basics measure for a grade 4 or above in English and maths is 38.5%, dropping to 20% for a grade 5 or above. The EBacc entry rate is low at 17.4%, and only 4.1% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths within the EBacc combination. In the sixth form, 29 students took A-levels, achieving an average points per entry of 19.79, equivalent to a D grade, with a value-added score of -0.66, rated well below average. The Ofsted breakdown shows that behaviour and attitudes were graded Requires Improvement, while quality of education, personal development, leadership and management, and sixth-form provision all received Good ratings.

The school offers a broad range of facilities including a sports hall, gymnasium, science labs, tennis courts, playing fields, ICT suite, art studios, and a sixth form centre. Sports provision covers swimming, netball, badminton, tennis, cricket, gymnastics, rugby, football, and basketball, while extracurricular clubs include gardening, science club, orchestra, Model UN, choir, Duke of Edinburgh, art club, Young Enterprise, debate, and chess. SEND support is extensive, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulties. This school may suit families in North Northamptonshire who value a wide range of extracurricular activities and strong SEND provision, but who are aware that academic outcomes are currently below local averages and that the school is working through an improvement journey following its recent inspection.

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