Graded inspection · Oct 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Gateshead
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| 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 entry297 applications · 50 places offered · 95 named it first
Small intakeFewer than 60 places, so not ranked.
- 2026 5.9; Gateshead median median 2.3
- 2025 5.7; Gateshead median median 2.2
- 2024 7.8; Gateshead median median 2.1
- 2023 8.4; Gateshead median median 2.2
- 2022 6.9; Gateshead median median 2.0
- This school
- Gateshead median
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 | 50 | 297 | 5.9 | 95 | 1.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 49 | 278 | 5.7 | 112 | 2.29 |
| Sep 2024 | 48 | 376 | 7.8 | 136 | 2.83 |
| Sep 2023 | 48 | 401 | 8.4 | 149 | 3.10 |
| Sep 2022 | 48 | 330 | 6.9 | 115 | 2.40 |
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.) | 50 | 48.4 | 52% | 74% | – |
| 2024/25 | 0 | – | |||
| 2023/24 | 0 | – | |||
| 2022/23 | 0 | – |
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
- XP GatesheadThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20245.9applications per place 48.4Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · GatesheadGraded · no overall grade20241.6applications per place 37.9Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · GatesheadOutstanding20243.2applications per place 54.3Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · Gateshead20262.3applications per place 40.1Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · South TynesideGood20221.7applications per place 45.2Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · South Tyneside20251.7applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · Newcastle upon TyneGraded · no overall grade202529.8Attainment 8
- 4.3 km · Newcastle upon TyneGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 37.1Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · Sunderland20261.4applications per place 41.0Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 148617 · 390/4004
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 250 pupils · 245 on roll
- Free school meals
- 35.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 31 August 2021
- Address
- Swards Road, Felling, NE10 9UZ
- Local authority
- Gateshead
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources