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Alderman White School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formNottinghamshire, East Midlands · Nottingham NG9 3DUTrust: The White Hills Park Trust LtdSchool website
Pupils on roll
768of 725 places
Free school meals
25.2%
Year 11 cohort 2025
150
Ofsted
School remains Good, 8 June 2022Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Alderman White School and Language College (URN 122851, until 1 October 2012).

What the data says

Alderman White School has no sixth form. Of the 142 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 40% moved to a sixth form college, 32% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 40% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 25% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 53.6 against 46.1 across England and 46.8 in Nottinghamshire, with 60% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Nottinghamshire and England.

Alderman White School
Nottinghamshire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureAlderman White SchoolNottinghamshireEngland
Pupils in the cohort1428,955607,348
Any sustained destination92%92%92%
Stayed in education89%84%86%
— school sixth form16%36%34%
— sixth form college40%4%13%
— further education college32%42%37%
— other education1%2%2%
Apprenticeship1%5%3%
Employment3%3%3%
No sustained destination5%6%6%
Destination unknown3%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureAlderman White SchoolNottinghamshireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)53.646.846.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths60%47%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths72%68%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects45%39%41%
EBacc average point score4.874.154.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort29%24%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils36.733.934.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils60.550.850.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language18%10%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language14899%89%30%20%75%
Mathematics14899%88%29%22%80%
English Literature14093%86%33%21%77%
Combined Science10067%65%20%9%68%
Geography7147%41%35%25%61%
French5436%18%52%29%83%
Chemistry4329%23%74%47%98%
Physics4329%23%86%46%98%
Biology4329%23%77%45%98%
Photography3725%6%5%19%43%
Religious Studies3725%31%76%32%89%
History3322%41%55%26%76%
Food Preparation and Nutrition2819%8%39%21%86%
German2517%5%32%33%88%
Media Studies2517%4%32%20%72%
Business Studies2416%18%25%20%63%
Fine Art1812%9%33%28%83%
Computer Science1812%13%50%30%89%
Physical Education1812%11%44%24%83%
Design and Technology139%11%15%23%46%
Music117%5%73%33%100%
Psychology96%3%56%22%100%
Chinese85%1%88%75%100%
Drama75%7%0%27%57%
Italian32%0%53%
Spanish32%19%27%
Punjabi21%0%48%
Polish21%1%84%
Russian21%0%87%
Arabic11%1%47%
Urdu11%1%42%
Modern Greek11%0%33%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Computer Appreciation / Introduction19
Music Technology (Electronic)13
Health Studies9

Other secondary schools in Nottinghamshire

Bramcote College

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79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.3

Carlton Academy

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84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.1

Chilwell School

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86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.2

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.