Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Newcastle upon Tyne
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 |
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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 entry273 applications · 159 places offered · 47 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2025 2.1; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2024 1.6; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2023 1.7; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.0
- 2022 2.0; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2021 2.5; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.0
- 2020 2.1; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2019 2.1; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.1
- 2018 1.9; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.0
- 2017 2.1; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 2.0
- 2016 3.2; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 2.8; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 3.8; Newcastle upon Tyne median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Newcastle upon Tyne median
Dashed bars: as Benfield School (URN 108526), 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 | 159 | 273 | 1.7 | 47 | 0.30 |
| Sep 2025 | 161 | 336 | 2.1 | 61 | 0.38 |
| Sep 2024 | 230 | 373 | 1.6 | 60 | 0.26 |
| Sep 2023 | 196 | 338 | 1.7 | 68 | 0.35 |
| Sep 2022 | 207 | 410 | 2.0 | 161 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2021 | 204 | 509 | 2.5 | 205 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 228 | 467 | 2.1 | 177 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2019 | 207 | 444 | 2.1 | 209 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2018 | 204 | 384 | 1.9 | 165 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2017 | 161 | 338 | 2.1 | 147 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2016 * | 84 | 265 | 3.2 | 75 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2015 * | 91 | 253 | 2.8 | 83 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2014 * | 84 | 316 | 3.8 | 90 | 1.07 |
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.) | 185 | 31.8 | 24% | 41% | – |
| 2024/25 | 183 | 33.5 | 24% | 43% | – |
| 2023/24 | 194 | 32.7 | 26% | 49% | −1.09 |
| 2022/23 | 175 | 33.2 | 22% | 41% | −1.15 |
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
- Benfield SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 31.8Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · Newcastle upon TyneGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 37.1Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · Newcastle upon TyneGood20223.0applications per place 53.1Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · North TynesideStandards maintained20241.6applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · Newcastle upon TyneOutstanding20234.4applications per place 54.1Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · North TynesideGood20222.0applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · North TynesideSpecial measures Inadequate2024
- 3.9 km · South Tyneside20251.7applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · South TynesideGood20221.7applications per place 45.2Attainment 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
- 144271 · 391/4480
- Trust
- Neat Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,035 pupils · 819 on roll
- Free school meals
- 69.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision and SEN unit
- Opened
- 1 May 2017
- Replaced
- Benfield School (URN 108526)
- Address
- Benfield Road, Walkergate, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE6 4NU
- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources