Graded inspection · May 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Redcar and Cleveland
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 entry251 applications · 159 places offered · 153 named it first
- 2026 1.6; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.6
- 2025 1.6; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.7
- 2024 1.7; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.6
- 2023 1.5; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.5
- 2022 1.3; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.5
- 2021 1.2; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2020 1.4; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2019 1.2; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 1.5; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2017 1.5; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2016 1.4; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2015 1.5; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.6; Redcar and Cleveland median median 1.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Redcar and Cleveland median
Dashed bars: as Rye Hills Academy (URN 144027), Rye Hills School (URN 111742), 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 | 251 | 1.6 | 153 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2025 | 162 | 256 | 1.6 | 159 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2024 | 146 | 244 | 1.7 | 143 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 | 164 | 239 | 1.5 | 143 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2022 | 200 | 258 | 1.3 | 163 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2021 * | 200 | 237 | 1.2 | 146 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2020 * | 189 | 270 | 1.4 | 150 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2019 * | 197 | 245 | 1.2 | 143 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2018 * | 162 | 241 | 1.5 | 143 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2017 * | 178 | 268 | 1.5 | 163 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2016 * | 205 | 287 | 1.4 | 191 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2015 * | 182 | 273 | 1.5 | 177 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2014 * | 153 | 242 | 1.6 | 152 | 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.) | 171 | 51.2 | 55% | 75% | – |
| 2024/25 | 151 | 51.9 | 56% | 76% | – |
| 2023/24 | 168 | 49.7 | 60% | 77% | +0.06 |
| 2022/23 | 147 | 47.5 | 51% | 73% | −0.29 |
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
- Rye Hills AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.6applications per place 51.2Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · Redcar and Cleveland20261.3applications per place 39.8Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20221.7applications per place 47.5Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Redcar and ClevelandGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 50.4Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20231.7applications per place 47.7Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20241.5applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 7.9 km · Redcar and ClevelandRequires significant improvement 20261.4applications per place 36.5Attainment 8
- 7.9 km · Redcar and ClevelandGood20222.1applications per place 38.6Attainment 8
- 8.2 km · Redcar and ClevelandOutstanding20231.3applications per place 44.0Attainment 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
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 148728 · 807/4016
- Capacity
- 1,175 pupils · 763 on roll
- Free school meals
- 31.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2021
- Replaced
- Rye Hills Academy (URN 144027); Rye Hills School (URN 111742)
- Address
- Redcar Lane, Redcar, TS10 2HN
- Local authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources