Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Redcar and Cleveland
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
- 18 March 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 29 November 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns)
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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 entry235 applications · 140 places offered · 136 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.6
- 2025 1.8; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.7
- 2024 1.6; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.6
- 2023 1.7; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.5
- 2022 1.8; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.5
- 2021 2.0; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.6
- 2020 2.3; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.4
- 2019 2.2; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.8
- 2018 1.7; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.6
- 2017 1.5; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.5
- 2016 1.7; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.7
- 2015 1.7; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.8; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Redcar and Cleveland median
Dashed bars: as Bydales School (URN 111729), 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 | 140 | 235 | 1.7 | 136 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 148 | 272 | 1.8 | 147 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2024 | 178 | 276 | 1.6 | 183 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2023 | 177 | 299 | 1.7 | 182 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2022 | 177 | 326 | 1.8 | 199 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2021 | 149 | 298 | 2.0 | 196 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2020 | 144 | 332 | 2.3 | 198 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2019 | 147 | 329 | 2.2 | 209 | 1.42 |
| Sep 2018 | 176 | 306 | 1.7 | 198 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2017 | 176 | 267 | 1.5 | 174 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2016 | 113 | 195 | 1.7 | 111 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2015 * | 137 | 233 | 1.7 | 123 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2014 * | 144 | 257 | 1.8 | 144 | 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.) | 147 | 50.4 | 63% | 80% | – |
| 2024/25 | 143 | 46.6 | 56% | 72% | – |
| 2023/24 | 147 | 48.9 | 58% | 80% | +0.03 |
| 2022/23 | 175 | 52.0 | 62% | 83% | +0.11 |
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 BydalesThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 50.4Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20241.6applications per place 51.2Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20231.7applications per place 47.7Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · Redcar and Cleveland20261.3applications per place 39.8Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20221.7applications per place 47.5Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · Redcar and ClevelandOutstanding20231.3applications per place 44.0Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20241.5applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 9.6 km · Redcar and ClevelandRequires significant improvement 20261.4applications per place 36.5Attainment 8
- 9.8 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20222.1applications per place 38.6Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 141399 · 807/4004
- Capacity
- 800 pupils · 832 on roll
- Free school meals
- 26.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 February 2015
- Replaced
- Bydales School (URN 111729)
- Address
- Coast Road, Marske-by-the-Sea, Redcar, TS11 6AR
- Local authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources