New Mills School

Church Lane, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK22 4NR

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About this school

New Mills School is a Community school serving secondary age pupils, located in High Peak, Derbyshire. The school has 680 pupils enrolled. Ofsted: Good (last overall grade). Last inspected 11 March 2025. The Headteacher is Heather Watts. The school is administered by Derbyshire local authority.

School details

Headteacher

Heather Watts

Local authority

Derbyshire

Gender

Mixed

URN

112936

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at New Mills School are handled by the school or the local authority (Derbyshire). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

Source: Department for Education school performance data. Check this school on GOV.UK →

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