Montsaye Academy
Greening Road, Rothwell, Kettering, NN14 6BB
This school is closed (it closed in November 2025).
It was replaced by Montsaye Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mr Ben Baines
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Constituency
- Kettering
- Setting
- Larger rural: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 1,380
- Pupils on roll
- 1,029
- URN
- 137049
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
About this school
Montsaye Academy was a secondary academy in Kettering. It taught children aged 11 to 18 and had 1,029 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Montsaye Academy has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in August 2011, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 199 | 176 | 155 |
| Attainment 8 score | 39.1 | 37.7 | 40.7 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.53 -0.73 to -0.32 | -0.57 -0.79 to -0.36 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 27% | 25.6% | 36.1% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 49% | 54% | 56.1% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 15% | 16.5% | 25.2% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.7 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Montsaye Academy has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | North Northamptonshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 39.1 | 38.4 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 37.7 | 36.1 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 40.7 | 36.1 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 10.9% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 13.6% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 10.6% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 1,086 |
| 2023/24 | 1,083 |
| 2024/25 | 1,029 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Montsaye Academy compares
Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 41% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 6% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 40.7 | 10.6% | 27.4% | 1,029 | — |
| Montsaye Academy | — | — | — | 1,017 | 0.0 miles |
| Bishop Stopford School | 58.7 | 4.7% | 7.3% | 1,454 | 4.4 miles |
| Kettering Science Academy | 37.3 | 11.2% | 29.9% | 1,477 | 4.6 miles |
| Southfield School for Girls | 46.8 | 9% | 19% | 1,111 | 4.7 miles |
| Kingswood Secondary Academy | 42.9 | 9.3% | 33% | 1,208 | 5.0 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 27.4%
- English as an additional language
- 9.4%
- Overall absence
- 10.61%
- Persistent absence
- 27.17%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Montsaye Academy0.0 miles
Secondary · Kettering
-
Bishop Stopford School4.4 miles
Secondary · Kettering
-
Kettering Science Academy4.6 miles
Secondary · Kettering
-
Southfield School for Girls4.7 miles
Secondary · Kettering
-
Kingswood Secondary Academy5.0 miles
Secondary · Corby
Other schools in Kettering
- Bishop Stopford School Secondary
- Kettering Science Academy Secondary
- Montsaye Academy Secondary
- Southfield School for Girls Secondary
- The Latimer Arts College Secondary
- Ronald Tree Nursery School Nursery
- Barton Seagrave Primary School Primary
- Brambleside Primary School Primary
- Brigstock Latham's Church of England Primary School Primary
- Broughton Primary School Primary
- Compass Primary Academy Primary
- Cranford CofE Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Montsaye Academy teach?
- Montsaye Academy taught children aged 11 to 18. It was a secondary school in Kettering.
- Has Montsaye Academy been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Montsaye Academy under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Montsaye Academy?
- Montsaye Academy had 1,029 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 18.
- How have Montsaye Academy's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 39.1 in 2022/23 and 40.7 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Montsaye Academy's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Montsaye Academy's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 November 2025.