Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 21 April 2026
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Harris Garrard Academy on 21 April 2026 using a report card, which grades each area separately and gives no overall grade. The school met Ofsted's safeguarding standards. It was graded Exceptional for curriculum and teaching, for personal development and wellbeing and for early years; Strong standard for achievement, for inclusion, for leadership and governance and for attendance and behaviour; Expected standard for post-16 provision.
No. Distance only counts when Harris Garrard Academy has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by its academy trust, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.
Harris Garrard Academy had 1,505 pupils aged 4 to 18 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 1,780. It is a mixed school with a sixth form.
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