Graded inspection · Dec 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Newcastle upon Tyne
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| 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 entry575 applications · 225 places offered · 322 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.6; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2025 2.4; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2024 2.7; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2023 2.5; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.0
- 2022 2.7; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2021 2.6; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.0
- 2020 2.8; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2019 2.4; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2018 2.4; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.0
- 2017 2.1; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.0
- 2016 2.1; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 1.9
- 2015 1.8; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 1.8
- 2014 1.9; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 1.9
- This school
- Newcastle upon Tyne 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 | 225 | 575 | 2.6 | 322 | 1.43 |
| Sep 2025 | 253 | 610 | 2.4 | 342 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2024 | 224 | 601 | 2.7 | 342 | 1.53 |
| Sep 2023 | 222 | 561 | 2.5 | 330 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2022 | 225 | 605 | 2.7 | 382 | 1.70 |
| Sep 2021 | 225 | 588 | 2.6 | 374 | 1.66 |
| Sep 2020 | 225 | 630 | 2.8 | 409 | 1.82 |
| Sep 2019 | 223 | 534 | 2.4 | 351 | 1.57 |
| Sep 2018 | 224 | 542 | 2.4 | 400 | 1.79 |
| Sep 2017 | 218 | 452 | 2.1 | 301 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2016 | 220 | 466 | 2.1 | 335 | 1.52 |
| Sep 2015 | 222 | 405 | 1.8 | 287 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2014 | 225 | 416 | 1.9 | 279 | 1.24 |
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.) | 226 | 51.8 | 55% | 73% | – |
| 2024/25 | 224 | 52.1 | 54% | 77% | – |
| 2023/24 | 222 | 56.9 | 60% | 81% | +0.54 |
| 2022/23 | 224 | 53.5 | 51% | 74% | +0.21 |
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
- Sacred Heart Catholic High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.6applications per place 51.8Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · Newcastle upon TyneGood20242.1applications per place 46.9Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · Newcastle upon TyneRequires improvement20241.5applications per place 34.4Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · Newcastle upon TyneGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · Newcastle upon TyneGraded · no overall grade20242.6applications per place 33.0Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · Newcastle upon TyneGraded · no overall grade202529.8Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · Gateshead20261.9applications per place 45.1Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · Newcastle upon TyneGood2023
- 3.7 km · Newcastle upon TyneGood20242.9applications per place 41.6Attainment 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
- 137708 · 391/4716
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,405 pupils · 1,424 on roll
- Free school meals
- 42.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 December 2011
- Replaced
- Sacred Heart High School (URN 108536)
- Address
- Fenham Hall Drive, Fenham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE4 9YH
- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources