Graded inspection · Oct 2022 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry334 applications · 218 places offered · 219 named it first
- 2026 1.5; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2025 1.4; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2024 1.4; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2023 1.1; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2022 1.1; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2021 1.2; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2020 1.3; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2019 1.4; County Durham median median 2.0
- 2018 1.4; County Durham median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 1.5; County Durham median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2016 1.2; County Durham median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2015 1.1; County Durham median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2014 1.2; County Durham median median 1.4; as the previous school
- This school
- County Durham median
Dashed bars: as Whitworth Park School and Sixth Form College (URN 114300), Tudhoe Grange School (URN 114298), 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 | 218 | 334 | 1.5 | 219 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 195 | 281 | 1.4 | 182 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 | 188 | 269 | 1.4 | 172 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2023 | 201 | 225 | 1.1 | 168 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2022 | 188 | 214 | 1.1 | 140 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2021 | 220 | 268 | 1.2 | 180 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2020 | 153 | 200 | 1.3 | 144 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2019 | 136 | 185 | 1.4 | 119 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2018 * | 137 | 196 | 1.4 | 128 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2017 * | 135 | 205 | 1.5 | 131 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2016 * | 167 | 198 | 1.2 | 157 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2015 * | 194 | 219 | 1.1 | 171 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2014 * | 181 | 212 | 1.2 | 177 | 0.98 |
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.) | 195 | 51.3 | 54% | 70% | – |
| 2024/25 | 148 | 50.4 | 55% | 70% | – |
| 2023/24 | 130 | 47.7 | 35% | 56% | −0.01 |
| 2022/23 | 147 | 48.4 | 44% | 63% | −0.06 |
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
- Whitworth Park AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20221.5applications per place 51.3Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · County DurhamRemains Good20221.6applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 5.1 km · County DurhamGood20231.8applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · County Durham20262.7applications per place 43.1Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · County DurhamGood20242.9applications per place 39.0Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · County DurhamRemains Good20242.0applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 8.3 km · County DurhamRemains Good20231.5applications per place 50.5Attainment 8
- 8.4 km · County DurhamRequires improvement20193.2applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- 9.5 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20253.1applications per place 56.3Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 145564 · 840/4009
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,300 pupils · 996 on roll
- Free school meals
- 37.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2018
- Replaced
- Whitworth Park School and Sixth Form College (URN 114300); Tudhoe Grange School (URN 114298)
- Address
- Whitworth Lane, Spennymoor, DL16 7LN
- Local authority
- County Durham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources