Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Hartlepool
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | 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 entry479 applications · 233 places offered · 212 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.1; Hartlepool median median 2.1
- 2025 2.3; Hartlepool median median 2.1
- 2024 2.2; Hartlepool median median 2.2
- 2023 2.3; Hartlepool median median 2.1
- 2022 2.4; Hartlepool median median 2.4
- 2021 2.4; Hartlepool median median 2.2
- 2020 2.5; Hartlepool median median 2.5
- 2019 2.3; Hartlepool median median 2.2
- 2018 1.8; Hartlepool median median 1.8
- 2017 2.1; Hartlepool median median 1.9
- 2016 2.6; Hartlepool median median 2.1
- 2015 2.3; Hartlepool median median 2.5
- 2014 2.0; Hartlepool median median 1.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Hartlepool median
Dashed bars: as The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College (URN 111756), the previous school.
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 | 233 | 479 | 2.1 | 212 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2025 | 249 | 569 | 2.3 | 229 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2024 | 270 | 586 | 2.2 | 235 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2023 | 264 | 608 | 2.3 | 240 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2022 | 264 | 623 | 2.4 | 278 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2021 | 267 | 627 | 2.4 | 319 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2020 | 268 | 680 | 2.5 | 300 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2019 | 269 | 611 | 2.3 | 321 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2018 | 259 | 474 | 1.8 | 255 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2017 | 260 | 549 | 2.1 | 284 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2016 | 241 | 623 | 2.6 | 276 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2015 | 258 | 588 | 2.3 | 274 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2014 * | 240 | 468 | 2.0 | 260 | 1.08 |
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.) | 259 | 44.2 | 44% | 61% | – |
| 2024/25 | 266 | 41.2 | 34% | 52% | – |
| 2023/24 | 253 | 42.4 | 32% | 62% | −0.57 |
| 2022/23 | 254 | 45.4 | 38% | 65% | −0.35 |
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
- English Martyrs Catholic School and Sixth Form CollegeThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · HartlepoolGraded · no overall grade20252.8applications per place 39.5Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Hartlepool20251.7applications per place 44.3Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Hartlepool20262.1applications per place 46.3Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · HartlepoolRequires improvement20241.7applications per place 36.1Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · Stockton-on-TeesGood20221.9applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 8.1 km · Stockton-on-TeesGood20231.5applications per place 44.8Attainment 8
- 10.6 km · County DurhamGood20231.7applications per place 41.2Attainment 8
- 11.0 km · County Durham20261.6applications per place 47.3Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 140867 · 805/4603
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,647 pupils · 1,420 on roll
- Free school meals
- 38.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 May 2014
- Replaced
- The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College (URN 111756)
- Address
- Catcote Road, Hartlepool, TS25 4HA
- Local authority
- Hartlepool
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources