Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Middlesbrough
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 |
Inspection history
- 11 March 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 3 October 2019Ungraded inspection: School remains Good
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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 entry570 applications · 230 places offered · 136 named it first
HistoryEarlier years not shown: formed from, or split from, other schools.
- 2026 2.5; Middlesbrough median median 2.1
- 2025 3.0; Middlesbrough median median 1.9
- 2024 2.9; Middlesbrough median median 1.9
- 2023 2.6; Middlesbrough median median 2.4
- 2022 3.2; Middlesbrough median median 1.9
- 2021 3.1; Middlesbrough median median 1.8
- 2020 3.2; Middlesbrough median median 2.4
- 2019 3.1; Middlesbrough median median 2.2
- 2018 2.2; Middlesbrough median median 1.9
- 2017 2.0; Middlesbrough median median 1.7
- 2016 1.9; Middlesbrough median median 1.8
- 2015 1.5; Middlesbrough median median 1.8
- 2014 2.0; Middlesbrough median median 2.0
- This school
- Middlesbrough 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 | 230 | 570 | 2.5 | 136 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2025 | 227 | 688 | 3.0 | 145 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2024 | 233 | 683 | 2.9 | 150 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2023 | 260 | 680 | 2.6 | 117 | 0.45 |
| Sep 2022 | 232 | 735 | 3.2 | 160 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2021 | 237 | 737 | 3.1 | 145 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2020 | 205 | 662 | 3.2 | 151 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2019 | 209 | 644 | 3.1 | 195 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2018 | 267 | 587 | 2.2 | 216 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2017 | 261 | 525 | 2.0 | 194 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2016 | 263 | 500 | 1.9 | 203 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2015 | 262 | 380 | 1.5 | 133 | 0.51 |
| Sep 2014 | 130 | 257 | 2.0 | 71 | 0.55 |
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.) | 233 | 41.7 | 41% | 61% | – |
| 2024/25 | 204 | 42.9 | 47% | 65% | – |
| 2023/24 | 204 | 41.3 | 41% | 62% | −0.23 |
| 2022/23 | 257 | 37.2 | 36% | 54% | −0.61 |
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
- Outwood Academy AcklamThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place 41.7Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · MiddlesbroughGraded · no overall grade20242.1applications per place 42.7Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · MiddlesbroughRemains Good20223.3applications per place 48.8Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Middlesbrough20263.1applications per place 42.9Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · MiddlesbroughGood20223.7applications per place 43.3Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · Stockton-on-Tees20261.7applications per place 42.4Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · Stockton-on-Tees20261.7applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · Middlesbrough20261.5applications per place 36.9Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · MiddlesbroughGood20231.1applications per place 40.3Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 139823 · 806/4002
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,350 pupils · 1,201 on roll
- Free school meals
- 57.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 September 2013
- Replaced
- Oakfields Community College (URN 135856)
- Address
- Hall Drive, Acklam, Middlesbrough, TS5 7JY
- Local authority
- Middlesbrough
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