Northampton School for Boys

📍 Billing Road, West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, NN1 5RT

About this school

Northampton School for Boys is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire. The school has 1,713 pupils enrolled. It was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 11 March 2025. The Headmaster is Richard Bernard. The school is administered by West Northamptonshire local authority. It belongs to THE NSB TRUST. The school has boys-only admissions. It opened in 1 September 2010.

School details

Headmaster

Richard Bernard

Trust

THE NSB TRUST

Local authority

West Northamptonshire

Gender

Boys

URN

136299

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Northampton School for Boys are handled by the school or the local authority (West Northamptonshire). 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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