- What did School Atlas judge The Nicholas Hamond Academy's summary of 6 ofsted judgements to be?
- School Atlas judged The Nicholas Hamond Academy's summary of 6 ofsted judgements as Expected standard at its inspection in March 2026, on School Atlas's own scale.
- How many pupils attend The Nicholas Hamond Academy?
- The Nicholas Hamond Academy has 710 pupils on roll.
- What ages does The Nicholas Hamond Academy take?
- The Nicholas Hamond Academy admits pupils aged 11 to 16.
- Where is The Nicholas Hamond Academy located?
- The Nicholas Hamond Academy is located in Swaffham, PE37 7DZ, Norfolk.
- How do I apply to The Nicholas Hamond Academy?
- The Nicholas Hamond Academy is a state school. In England you apply through the council where you live, using its common application form, even if the school is in another council area. The national closing date for secondary places is 31 October.
- How are Year 7 places decided at The Nicholas Hamond Academy?
- When The Nicholas Hamond Academy has more applications than places for 2026-27, they are offered in a published order of priority: 1. Looked after and previously looked after children — Looked after children and all previously looked after children, including those children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted; 2. Siblings — Children whose siblings live at the same address, currently attend the academy and who will still be attending the academy at the point of admission. For the purposes of these admission arrangements a sibling is classed as children living permanently at the same address as a child already attending the academy and either have one or both parents in common, are related by a parent's marriage or civil relationship, are adopted or fostered by a common parent, or are related to children who live at the same address whose parents live as partners. If children of multiple births (twins, triplets etc.) require admission in the same year group and there is only a single place left within PAN, the school will offer places above the PAN; 3. Children of staff — Children of permanent teaching and support staff of an ATT academy who have been employed at the academy for 2 years or more at the time of application, or a member of staff who is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage at the same academy, and 1 further criteria. 154 places were offered at this entry point for 2026-27. Tie-break: If, following the application of the oversubscription criteria, two or more applicants are judged to have equal priority for the final place at an academy, random allocation will be used to determine who receives the place. Where random allocation is used, the names of the applicants will be entered into a hat and a name will be selected from the hat by someone independent of the academy. An exception is where the applicants judged to be of equal priority live at the same address, in which case the academy will admit them all.
- What is the largest ethnic background at The Nicholas Hamond Academy?
- According to the DfE School Census 2025-26, 90% of pupils at The Nicholas Hamond Academy are recorded as White British. The full ethnic breakdown across all groups is available on the Pupils tab.