Graded inspection · Oct 2024 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 8 October 2024Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 10 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 entry538 applications · 222 places offered · 215 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.4; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2025 2.5; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2024 2.5; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2023 2.2; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2022 2.5; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2021 2.7; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2020 2.6; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2019 2.5; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2018 2.7; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2017 2.4; County Durham median median 1.7
- 2016 1.9; County Durham median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2015 1.8; County Durham median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2014 1.8; County Durham median median 1.4; as the previous school
- This school
- County Durham median
Dashed bars: as St Leonard's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Comprehensive School (URN 114326), 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 | 222 | 538 | 2.4 | 215 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 192 | 481 | 2.5 | 176 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2024 | 160 | 396 | 2.5 | 136 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2023 | 230 | 497 | 2.2 | 211 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2022 | 224 | 570 | 2.5 | 228 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2021 | 231 | 616 | 2.7 | 251 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2020 | 227 | 580 | 2.6 | 233 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2019 | 228 | 578 | 2.5 | 223 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2018 | 229 | 614 | 2.7 | 263 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2017 | 230 | 541 | 2.4 | 237 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2016 * | 233 | 440 | 1.9 | 232 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 * | 230 | 421 | 1.8 | 239 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2014 * | 218 | 388 | 1.8 | 208 | 0.95 |
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.) | 209 | 56.5 | 60% | 81% | – |
| 2024/25 | 225 | 57.7 | 59% | 80% | – |
| 2023/24 | 214 | 57.2 | 62% | 83% | +0.64 |
| 2022/23 | 236 | 59.4 | 66% | 83% | +0.65 |
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
- St Leonard's Catholic School, DurhamThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 56.5Attainment 8
- 0.8 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20253.1applications per place 56.3Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20242.7applications per place 48.9Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · County Durham20261.3applications per place 39.0Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · County DurhamRemains Good20241.6applications per place 48.6Attainment 8
- 7.5 km · County DurhamGood20242.4applications per place 50.1Attainment 8
- 8.1 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 9.0 km · SunderlandGraded · no overall grade20241.3applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 9.6 km · Sunderland20261.5applications per place 46.3Attainment 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
- 143583 · 840/4691
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,265 pupils · 1,293 on roll
- Free school meals
- 14.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 November 2016
- Replaced
- St Leonard's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Comprehensive School (URN 114326)
- Address
- North End, Durham, DH1 4NG
- Local authority
- County Durham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources