Nelson Academy Overview

Nelson Academy is a primary school located in Downham Market and reports to the local authority of Norfolk.

Nelson Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 3 to 11 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 378 students but currently enrols 417 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Nelson Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 77.9% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 17.0% of students at the school.

35.8% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Nelson Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities