North East
Secondary schools in Gateshead
91 schools, 29,696 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 39.6.
Ofsted across Gateshead
Good47
Outstanding7
No overall grade37
54 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 37 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Gateshead
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Hume Catholic School, GatesheadAcademy converter | Gateshead | Outstanding 2024 | 53.2 |
| Whickham SchoolAcademy converter | Newcastle-upon-Tyne | No grade | 53 |
| St Thomas More Catholic School, BlaydonAcademy converter | Blaydon-on-Tyne | Good 2023 | 51.9 |
| Thorp AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Ryton | Good 2024 | 47.2 |
| Lord Lawson of Beamish AcademyAcademy converter | Chester le Street | No grade | 46.6 |
| Kingsmeadow Community SchoolCommunity school | Gateshead | No grade | 42.9 |
| Grace CollegeAcademy converter | Gateshead | No grade | 42.9 |
| Heworth Grange SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Gateshead | No grade | 36.4 |
| XP GatesheadFree schools | Felling | No grade | — |