Graded inspection · Jun 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 | 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 entry307 applications · 106 places offered · 95 named it first
- 2026 2.9; County Durham median median 1.8
- 2025 2.4; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2024 2.6; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2023 2.9; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2022 2.5; County Durham median median 1.9
- 2021 3.2; County Durham median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2020 2.5; County Durham median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2019 2.5; County Durham median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2018 2.5; County Durham median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 2.3; County Durham median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2016 1.8; 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 Bishop Barrington School A Sports with Mathematics College (URN 114301), 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 | 106 | 307 | 2.9 | 95 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 136 | 328 | 2.4 | 120 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2024 | 122 | 315 | 2.6 | 120 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 | 86 | 249 | 2.9 | 70 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2022 | 123 | 302 | 2.5 | 105 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2021 * | 94 | 300 | 3.2 | 84 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2020 * | 145 | 368 | 2.5 | 128 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2019 * | 153 | 378 | 2.5 | 144 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2018 * | 134 | 338 | 2.5 | 132 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2017 * | 132 | 298 | 2.3 | 132 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 160 | 284 | 1.8 | 159 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2015 * | 141 | 251 | 1.8 | 136 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2014 * | 135 | 248 | 1.8 | 133 | 0.99 |
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.) | 87 | 39.0 | 25% | 43% | – |
| 2024/25 | 128 | 39.4 | 24% | 50% | – |
| 2023/24 | 139 | 41.8 | 20% | 48% | −0.27 |
| 2022/23 | 133 | 43.7 | 32% | 55% | −0.52 |
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
- Bishop Barrington AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.9applications per place 39.0Attainment 8
- 0.2 km · County DurhamRemains Good20242.0applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · County Durham20262.7applications per place 43.1Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · County DurhamGood20231.8applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · County DurhamRequires improvement20193.2applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · County DurhamGood20221.5applications per place 51.3Attainment 8
- 8.2 km · County DurhamRemains Good20221.6applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 8.7 km · County DurhamRemains Good20231.5applications per place 50.5Attainment 8
- 9.6 km · County DurhamGood202433.4Attainment 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
- 148706 · 840/4162
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 814 pupils · 599 on roll
- Free school meals
- 51.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 September 2021
- Replaced
- Bishop Barrington School A Sports with Mathematics College (URN 114301)
- Address
- Woodhouse Lane, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6LA
- Local authority
- County Durham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources