Rawlins
Loughborough Road, Quorn, Loughborough, LE12 8DY
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Trust
- EMBRACE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Principal
- Mr Stuart Morton
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Diocese
- Diocese of Leicester
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Loughborough
- Setting
- Larger rural: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 1,522
- Pupils on roll
- 1,455
- URN
- 137640
- Local authority
- Leicestershire
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01509622800
About this school
Rawlins is a Church of England secondary academy in Loughborough. It teaches children aged 11 to 18 and has 1,455 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Sixth form
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 247 | 244 | 244 |
| Attainment 8 score | 46.7 | 46.5 | 45.0 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.14 -0.31 to +0.04 | -0.03 -0.21 to +0.15 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 45% | 45.9% | 45.5% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 68% | 67.6% | 64.3% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 23% | 16.8% | 12.7% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 |
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 Rawlins has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Leicestershire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 46.7 | 37.5 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 46.5 | 37.1 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 45 | 36.9 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 9% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 10.1% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 10.6% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 1,571 |
| 2023/24 | 1,566 |
| 2024/25 | 1,506 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Rawlins compares
Rawlins ranked 28th of 43 secondary schools in Leicestershire for Attainment 8 in 2024/25. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 57% 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 | 45 | 10.6% | 20.1% | 1,455 | — |
| Humphrey Perkins School | 48.6 | 7.6% | 18.3% | 863 | 1.1 miles |
| Woodbrook Vale School | 51.2 | 8.3% | 16.1% | 839 | 2.0 miles |
| Limehurst Academy | 48.2 | 9.8% | 35.3% | 656 | 2.6 miles |
| De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire | 55.1 | 6.2% | 15.7% | 1,376 | 3.3 miles |
| Charnwood College | 43.9 | 6.6% | 29.1% | 664 | 3.4 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)
- 20.12%
- English as an additional language
- 5.5%
- Overall absence
- 10.61%
- Persistent absence
- 28.09%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Humphrey Perkins School1.1 miles
Secondary · Loughborough
-
Woodbrook Vale School2.0 miles
Secondary · Loughborough
-
Limehurst Academy2.6 miles
Secondary · Loughborough
-
De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire3.3 miles
Secondary · Loughborough
-
Charnwood College3.4 miles
Secondary · Loughborough
Other schools in Loughborough
Rawlins ranks 6th of the 8 ranked secondary schools in Loughborough.
- Charnwood College Secondary
- De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire Secondary
- East Leake Academy Secondary
- Humphrey Perkins School Secondary
- Iveshead School Secondary
- Limehurst Academy Secondary
- Woodbrook Vale School Secondary
- Barrow Hall Orchard Church of England Primary School Primary
- Belton Church of England Primary School Primary
- Booth Wood Academy Primary
- Brookside Primary School Primary
- Burton-on-the-Wolds Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Rawlins teach?
- Rawlins teaches children aged 11 to 18. It is a secondary school in Loughborough.
- Who is the principal of Rawlins?
- The principal of Rawlins is Mr Stuart Morton, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Rawlins last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Rawlins, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Rawlins?
- Rawlins has 1,455 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 18.
- Is Rawlins full?
- Rawlins has capacity for 1,522 pupils and 1,455 on roll (96%), so it is close to full. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Rawlins a faith school?
- Yes. Rawlins is designated Church of England, in the Diocese of Leicester.
- Is Rawlins a selective school?
- No. Rawlins is recorded as non-selective in the schools register.
- Who runs Rawlins?
- Rawlins is part of EMBRACE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- What SEN provision does Rawlins have?
- The schools register lists Rawlins's special educational needs provision as: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty. Contact the school to discuss how it would support a particular child.
- How have Rawlins's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 46.7 in 2022/23 and 45 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Rawlins rank locally?
- Rawlins ranked 28th of 43 secondary schools in Leicestershire for Attainment 8. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 57% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 6% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Rawlins's absence rate?
- Rawlins's overall absence rate is 10.6% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Rawlins's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Rawlins'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 1 July 2026.