Living in Wellingborough with children
Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 54,421 people in 22,075 households; 32.1% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
35 schools: 29 state primary, 5 state secondary, 1 privateWellingborough on the schools map →Every school in Wellingborough, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (29)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Primary | Good | Top 6% (5/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Bozeat Community Primary School | Good | Top 11% (10/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Ruskin Academy | Good | Top 12% (11/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Warwick Academy | Good | Top 19% (18/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Irchester Community Primary School | School remains Good | Top 21% (20/96) in North Northamptonshire | 3.205 miles (2026) |
| Freemans Endowed Church of England Junior Academy | Good | Top 33% (31/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Stanwick Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 38% (36/96) in North Northamptonshire | 0.76 miles (2026) |
| All Saints CEVA Primary School and Nursery | Good | Top 39% (37/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Wollaston Primary School | Good | (55/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Irthlingborough Junior School | Good | (58/96) in North Northamptonshire | 2.488 miles (2024) |
| Little Harrowden Community Primary School | School remains Good | (58/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Redwell Primary School | Standards maintained | (61/96) in North Northamptonshire | 1.593 miles (2026) |
| Great Doddington Primary | Good | (62/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Croyland Primary School | Good | (64/96) in North Northamptonshire | 1.004 miles (2025) |
| Oakway Academy | Good | (71/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Victoria Primary Academy | Good | (72/96) in North Northamptonshire | 1.933 miles (2024) |
| Finedon Mulso Church of England Junior School | Good | (77/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Our Lady's Catholic Primary School | Requires improvement | (83/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| St Peter's Church of England Academy | School remains Good | (85/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Park Junior School, Wellingborough | Standards maintained | (87/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| The Glenvale Church of England Primary School | Requires improvement | (88/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Windmill Primary School | Requires improvement | (93/96) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Finedon Nursery and Infant School | Good | — | 2.021 miles (2026) |
| Irthlingborough Nursery and Infant School | School remains Good | — | — |
| Raunds Park Infant School | School remains Good | — | — |
| Ruskin Infant School | Good | — | — |
| St Barnabas Church of England School | School remains Good | — | — |
| Stanton Cross Primary School | Good | — | 0.319 miles (2026) |
| The Avenue Infant School | Good | — | — |
State secondary schools (5)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Christopher Hatton Academy | Good | Top 16% (3/19) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Wrenn School | School remains Good | (10/19) in North Northamptonshire | 3.93 miles (2026) |
| Wollaston School | Good | (11/19) in North Northamptonshire | 2.791 miles (2025) |
| Weavers Academy | School remains Good | (12/19) in North Northamptonshire | — |
| Manor School | Inadequate | (17/19) in North Northamptonshire | — |
Private schools (1)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellingborough School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | (2/2) in North Northamptonshire | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (162 detached, 184 semi-detached, 157 terraced, 37 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Wellingborough. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Wellingborough →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 95% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 98%, on average across the 1,944 postcodes in NN8, NN9, NN29. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 4 outstanding; 24 good, or expected standard; 1 requires improvement; 3 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.88 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 32 in North Northamptonshire.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
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