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Heworth Grange School

  • 11–16Ages
  • 910Pupils
  • SecondaryPhase
  • 145490URN

High Lanes, Felling, Gateshead, NE10 0PT · School website

Applications per placeCircle size: applicationsThis school
Latest Ofsted

Graded inspection · Nov 2024 Previous framework

No overall grade given
  • Quality of education
  • Behaviour and attitudes
  • Personal development
  • Leadership and management
What Ofsted found
Applications per place · Sept 2026
1.6per place
0.7 below Gateshead median (2.3)
Fewer applicationsMore

This schoolOther secondary schools in Gateshead

324 applications for 207 places · 7th of 8 in Gateshead
Every year since 2014
Attainment 8 · 2025/26 (provisional)
37.9of 90
9th of 9 in Gateshead
All GCSE results

What did Ofsted find?

Ofsted data to 30 September 2026
Graded inspection · 12 November 2024Ofsted's previous 4-point scale (to August 2024). Between September 2024 and November 2025 Ofsted graded areas but gave no overall grade.
AreaOutstandingGoodRequires improvementInadequate
Quality of educationRequires improvement
Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
Personal developmentGood
Leadership and managementRequires improvement

Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades

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 entry
1.6applications per place, Year 7
0.7 below Gateshead median (2.3) 0.7 below England median (2.2)

324 applications · 207 places offered · 152 named it first

  1. 2026 1.6; Gateshead median median 2.3
  2. 2025 1.3; Gateshead median median 2.2
  3. 2024 1.2; Gateshead median median 2.1
  4. 2023 1.1; Gateshead median median 2.2
  5. 2022 1.1; Gateshead median median 2.0
  6. 2021 1.3; Gateshead median median 2.0
  7. 2020 1.3; Gateshead median median 2.1
  8. 2019 1.5; Gateshead median median 2.2
  9. 2018 1.6; Gateshead median median 1.7
  10. 2017 1.6; Gateshead median median 1.7; as the previous school
  11. 2016 1.6; Gateshead median median 1.9; as the previous school
  12. 2015 1.4; Gateshead median median 1.7; as the previous school
  13. 2014 1.8; Gateshead median median 1.9; as the previous school
More applications per place than the Gateshead median in 0 of 9 years.
  • This school
  • Gateshead median

Dashed bars: as Heworth Comprehensive Grange School (URN 108407), 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.

EntryPlacesApplicationsPer placeFirst preferencesFirst-pref. ratio
Sep 20262073241.61520.73
Sep 20251972461.31190.60
Sep 20242082431.21020.49
Sep 20232162461.1970.45
Sep 20222232411.1910.41
Sep 20212363041.31590.67
Sep 20202362951.31620.69
Sep 20192093041.51670.80
Sep 20182093321.62060.99
Sep 2017 *2083341.62030.98
Sep 2016 *2073251.61920.93
Sep 2015 *2183141.41960.90
Sep 2014 *1873381.81981.06

How did pupils do at GCSE?

DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisional

196 pupils took GCSEs in 2025/26.

Attainment 8 (out of 90)37.99th of 9 in Gateshead
Grade 5 or above in English and maths32%9th of 9 in Gateshead
Grade 4 or above in English and maths55%
  • This school
  • Gateshead median
  • England median
Progress 8 (2023/24, the latest published)−0.86
−20 = national average+2
Every year as a table
YearPupilsAttainment 85+ Eng & maths4+ Eng & mathsProgress 8
2025/26 (prov.)19637.932%55%–
2024/2522936.426%42%–
2023/2420437.128%52%−0.86
2022/2319538.628%51%−0.95

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

  • 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
145490 · 390/4002
Trust
Consilium Academies
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Capacity
1,361 pupils · 910 on roll
Free school meals
56.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
Opened
1 February 2018
Replaced
Heworth Comprehensive Grange School (URN 108407)
Address
High Lanes, Felling, Gateshead, NE10 0PT
Local authority
Gateshead

Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources