Graded inspection · May 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Inspection history
- 13 May 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 14 November 2019Ungraded inspection: School remains Good
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry340 applications · 189 places offered · 202 named it first
- 2026 1.8; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2025 1.8; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2024 1.8; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2023 1.9; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2022 2.4; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2021 2.0; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2020 2.0; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2019 2.1; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2018 2.1; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2017 1.7; County Durham median median 1.7
- 2016 1.5; County Durham median median 1.5
- 2015 1.5; County Durham median median 1.5
- 2014 1.4; 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 | 189 | 340 | 1.8 | 202 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2025 | 149 | 265 | 1.8 | 149 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 168 | 296 | 1.8 | 174 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2023 | 162 | 312 | 1.9 | 171 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2022 | 147 | 357 | 2.4 | 222 | 1.51 |
| Sep 2021 | 148 | 299 | 2.0 | 149 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2020 | 160 | 318 | 2.0 | 165 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2019 | 171 | 353 | 2.1 | 168 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2018 | 142 | 301 | 2.1 | 135 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2017 | 141 | 246 | 1.7 | 134 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2016 | 169 | 248 | 1.5 | 181 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2015 | 148 | 221 | 1.5 | 155 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2014 | 137 | 187 | 1.4 | 137 | 1.00 |
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.) | 127 | 51.0 | 55% | 77% | – |
| 2024/25 | 134 | 51.8 | 57% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 141 | 49.6 | 55% | 73% | −0.12 |
| 2022/23 | 134 | 51.0 | 44% | 71% | +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
- Easington AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 51.0Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · County DurhamRemains Good20232.5applications per place 42.1Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · County DurhamGood20231.7applications per place 41.2Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · County DurhamOutstanding20241.9applications per place 55.0Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · County Durham20261.6applications per place 47.3Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · County DurhamGood20231.3applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 8.0 km · SunderlandGraded · no overall grade20241.3applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 10.1 km · Sunderland20261.5applications per place 46.3Attainment 8
- 10.6 km · SunderlandSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 43.1Attainment 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
- 138075 · 840/4280
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 750 pupils · 769 on roll
- Free school meals
- 38.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2012
- Replaced
- Easington Community Science College (URN 114318)
- Address
- Stockton Road, Easington Village, Peterlee, SR8 3AY
- Local authority
- County Durham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources