Billing Brook Special School is an academy in Northampton, United Kingdom with 257 pupils, part of Billing Brook School Academy Trust. As of 9 November 2026 it is advertising 1 vacancy: Level 2 Teaching Assistant (closes 9 December).
Listed on EduAtlas: the school’s official record and its live vacancies. 1 live vacancy.
Head
Nikki Kennedy, Headteacher
Trust or group
Billing Brook School Academy Trust
Type
Academy
Pupils
257 pupils · 24% girls · 42.0% eligible for free school meals · 18.7% with English as an additional language DfE school census, 2025/26
Special needs
0 (0.0%) on SEN support · 257 (100.0%) with an education, health and care plan DfE, Special educational needs in England, 2025/26
We are a busy all special educational needs school and looking to recruit fantastic Level 2 Teaching Assistants to work in our school. Although not a prerequisite SEN experience…
Exam results
Year
Attainment 8
Grade 5+ Eng. & maths
KS2 expected
KS2 higher
2024/25
–
–
0%
0%
2023/24
0.3
0.0%
0%
0%
2022/23
–
–
0%
0%
Department for Education performance tables. Attainment 8 is the average score across eight GCSE-level subjects (out of 90). Grade 5+ is the share of pupils with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26.
Inspections
Date
Inspection
Outcome
25 March 2025
Ungraded inspection
Standards maintained
15 October 2019
Ungraded inspection
School remains Outstanding
Ofsted. Inspections graded schools Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate until August 2024. From September 2024 there were no overall grades; since November 2025 a report card grades each area: exceptional, strong standard, expected standard, needs attention or urgent improvement.
Staff
Year
Teachers
Pupils per teacher
Leavers
Vacancies
Average pay
2025/26
37.6
6.8
–
0
£50,455
2024/25
35.9
7.1
3%
0
£45,664
2023/24
38.2
6.8
17%
0
£45,122
2022/23
42.5
6.0
8%
1
£39,515
2021/22
39.4
6.4
3%
1
£41,250
2020/21
38.2
6.4
10%
0
£40,988
Earlier years (2014/15 to 2019/20)
Year
Teachers
Pupils per teacher
Leavers
Vacancies
Average pay
2019/20
40.0
6.0
10%
0
£40,257
2018/19
41.8
5.5
15%
1
£37,820
2017/18
39.8
5.7
14%
0
£36,207
2016/17
40.1
5.5
19%
0
£33,623
2015/16
38.1
5.4
16%
0
£33,033
2014/15
37.6
5.5
16%
0
£34,712
Department for Education, School Workforce Census. Teachers are full-time equivalent. "Leavers" is the share of teachers who moved to another state school or left state schools by the following November, so the latest year has none yet. Vacancies are posts vacant or filled temporarily on census day in November. Average pay is for all teachers, leaders included.
Attendance
Year
Sessions missed
Unauthorised
Persistently absent
Severely absent
2025/26
6.2%
0.5%
19.3%
0.9%
2024/25
6.6%
0.7%
19.2%
0.9%
2023/24
6.8%
0.4%
19.6%
0.9%
2022/23
8.2%
0.7%
28.9%
0.0%
2021/22
9.6%
0.6%
35.8%
1.9%
2020/21
5.2%
0.3%
14.4%
1.9%
Earlier years (2016/17 to 2018/19)
Year
Sessions missed
Unauthorised
Persistently absent
Severely absent
2018/19
5.2%
0.8%
13.4%
1.1%
2017/18
6.3%
0.6%
17.1%
1.6%
2016/17
5.2%
0.5%
16.6%
0.5%
Department for Education, pupil absence statistics, autumn and spring terms of each year so years compare. Persistently absent: share of pupils who missed 10% or more of sessions. Severely absent: share who missed half or more. There are no figures for 2019/20 (school closures).
Register details and head: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools. Results: Department for Education performance tables. Vacancies: public job services and the school's own website, checked continuously. Nothing here is estimated.