UK Schools
Arnold Hill Spencer Academy
Arnold Hill Spencer Academy is a mixed secondary academy in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire County Council, teaching 1,552 pupils aged 11 to 18. Ofsted graded quality of education as Good at its most recent inspection in June 2025. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 49.8 (England 46.1). Term dates and holidays for 2025–2026 are listed below.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Arnold Hill Spencer Academy.
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Arnold Hill Spencer Academy.
Key dates (2025–2026)
- Year 12 Welcome Tutor Parents Evening 25th September 2025 Event
- Year 13 UCAS Parent Forum 1st October 2025 Event
- Sixth Form Open Evening 8th October 2025 Event
- UCAS Deadline – Oxbridge, Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine 15th October 2025 Event
- Year 13 Parents Evening 13th November 2025 Event
- Deadline Sixth Form Applications 2026 Entry 12th December 2025 Event
- School UCAS Deadline 19th December 2025 Event
- Year 13 Mock Exams 1 Week commencing 12th January 2026 Event
- National UCAS Deadline 15th January 2026 Event
- Year 12 Parents Evening 26th February 2026 Event
- Year 13 Mock Exams 2 Week commencing 16th March 2026 Event
- Year 12 Mock Exams Week commencing 27th April 2026 Event
- A Level Exams Week commencing 4th May 2026 Event
- Year 12 Work Experience Week Week commencing 6th July 2026 Event
- Christmas Holiday 22nd December 2025 – 2nd January 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday 30th March 2026 – 10th April 2026 Holiday
- Summer Holiday 27th July 2026 – 4th September 2026 Holiday
- New Year’s Day 1st January 2026 Event
- Good Friday 3rd April 2026 Event
- Easter Monday 6th April 2026 Holiday
- Early May Bank Holiday 4th May 2026 Holiday
- Spring Bank Holiday 25th May 2026 Holiday
- Summer Bank Holiday 31st August 2026 Holiday
- Christmas Day 25th December 2025 Holiday
- Boxing Day 26th December 2025 Event
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Arnold Hill Spencer Academy with Nottinghamshire County Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 49.8 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
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16 to 18 (A level & sixth form) 32.27 A level average point score
Results for students finishing post-16 study.
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Attendance 23.9% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Nottinghamshire County Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 91% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school Nottinghamshire County Council England
What students do after 16 to 18 study 75% In education, apprenticeship or work
Destinations the year after finishing post-16 study.
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About this data source & caveats
Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.
We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.
Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Arnold Hill Spencer Academy. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.
Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Location & catchment area
Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Arnold Hill Spencer Academy than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.