Nicholas Chamberlaine School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Bedworth, Warwickshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
14.229 miles
Published by Warwickshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Nicholas Chamberlaine School is a secondary school in Bedworth, Warwickshire for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 April 2024. Warwickshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2017 to 2026 entry.
Nicholas Chamberlaine School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 14.229 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The 2026 Year 7 last distance offered was 14.229 miles, 5th longest of 32 Warwickshire secondary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 4.61 miles.
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 5 of the 8 years with a published outcome; the biggest swing in last distance came from 2024 to 2025.
- Year 7 entry in 2026 drew 227 first-choice applications for 242 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 15 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25: 25% (England 45%), lowest among this school and 7 of its 8 nearest Warwickshire secondary schools that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warwickshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Bulkington Road, Bedworth, CV12 9EA
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Warwickshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,456 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 April 2024
Strengths
- “Nicholas Chamberlaine School (NCS) staff and pupils share the same high aspirations.”
- “Pupils understand and follow the ambition to be ‘Successful learners: World citizens’.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are warm and respectful.”
To improve
- “However, there are times when some teachers do not check pupils’ understanding well enough.”
- “They do not know if pupils remember what they have learned before.”
- “This means that some teachers do not consistently adapt the learning to address any wrong ideas or missing knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 25% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 36.9 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 227 first-preference applications, 242 offers in total, 227 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Warwickshire.
- George Eliot Academy 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ash Green School 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Sixth Form College 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Nuneaton Academy 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Etone College 3.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Higham Lane School 3.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Higham Lane North Academy 4.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hartshill Academy 4.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
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