Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in County Durham
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry498 applications · 235 places offered · 250 named it first
- 2026 2.1; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2025 2.1; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2024 2.2; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2023 2.5; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2022 2.3; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2021 2.6; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2020 2.4; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2019 2.6; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2018 2.2; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2017 2.2; County Durham median median 1.7
- 2016 1.6; County Durham median median 1.5
- 2015 1.6; County Durham median median 1.5
- 2014 1.6; County Durham median median 1.4
- This school
- County Durham median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 235 | 498 | 2.1 | 250 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2025 | 236 | 489 | 2.1 | 266 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2024 | 238 | 527 | 2.2 | 294 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2023 | 234 | 573 | 2.5 | 325 | 1.39 |
| Sep 2022 | 234 | 537 | 2.3 | 287 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2021 | 233 | 606 | 2.6 | 324 | 1.39 |
| Sep 2020 | 235 | 566 | 2.4 | 328 | 1.40 |
| Sep 2019 | 242 | 620 | 2.6 | 342 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2018 | 237 | 518 | 2.2 | 264 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2017 | 237 | 516 | 2.2 | 254 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2016 | 216 | 340 | 1.6 | 202 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2015 | 233 | 369 | 1.6 | 223 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2014 | 188 | 297 | 1.6 | 181 | 0.96 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 237 | 46.8 | 42% | 68% | – |
| 2024/25 | 234 | 46.4 | 40% | 64% | – |
| 2023/24 | 229 | 47.5 | 45% | 66% | −0.14 |
| 2022/23 | 239 | 49.1 | 50% | 68% | −0.04 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Park View SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · County DurhamGood20242.4applications per place 50.1Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · Gateshead20251.8applications per place 45.2Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · SunderlandRemains Good20232.2applications per place 44.8Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · SunderlandGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 42.7Attainment 8
- 5.2 km · Sunderland20261.9applications per place 48.2Attainment 8
- 6.4 km · Sunderland20261.5applications per place 46.3Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20242.7applications per place 48.9Attainment 8
- 6.7 km · Sunderland20261.4applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136971 · 840/4047
- Trust
- Park View Academy
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,484 pupils · 1,631 on roll
- Free school meals
- 25.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2011
- Replaced
- Park View Community School (URN 114288)
- Address
- Church Chare, Chester le Street, DH3 3QA
- Local authority
- County Durham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources