Nottingham HOPE Academy
Alternative provision school · Academy alternative provision converter · ages 4 to 19 · Mixed
Sherwood Education Centre, Perry Road, Nottingham, NG5 3AE
- Pupils95
- Ages4 to 19
- Latest Ofsted5 Oct 2021
- FundingState-funded
Ofsted inspections
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Graded inspection · 5 Oct 2021
This inspection was of a predecessor school (Hospital and Home Education PRU), before it reopened under its current reference number. Ofsted says grades of a predecessor school can’t, in law, transfer to the new one.
Overall effectiveness: Good
- Quality of educationGood
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Leadership and managementGood
- Early years provisionGood
- Sixth form provisionGood
- Safeguarding is effectiveYes
Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1 · report published 22 Nov 2021
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Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.
Results
No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.
Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.
Pupils and attendance
- Pupils
- 95
29 girls, 66 boys - Eligible for free school meals
- 43.3% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)
Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.
About the school
- Type
- Academy alternative provision converter (Academies)
- Trust
- NEXUS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Nexus Multi Academy Trust
- Boys, girls or mixed
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Opened
- 1 September 2025
- Local authority
- Nottingham
- Parliamentary constituency
- Nottingham East
- URN
- 151951 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)
Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).
Admissions
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