SF School Facts UK

Independent secondary school in Gateshead

Emmanuel College

Consett Road, Lobley Hill, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE11 0AN

Independent Sixth form Full
School website 01914602099
Ofsted No grade October 2024
Pupils 1,564 over capacity (108%)
Local deprivation 5/10 mid-range

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 15 October 2024.

This inspection did not give an overall grade. Read the report for Ofsted's findings; it cannot be compared as a single score with a historic grade.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Report card — no overall grade
Last overall grade in this dataset
Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
Days since inspection
717 days
Framework era
Current framework (no overall grade)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Exam results

Independent schools are not comparable in the performance tables. Most enter pupils for international GCSEs, which are not approved qualifications for these measures, so any Attainment 8 figure would be calculated from a fraction of what pupils actually sit. We do not publish one rather than publish a misleading number.

Evidence found
No phase-compatible comparable headline measure is published here.
Source coverage
DfE 2024/25 school performance files, checked by exact URN and establishment type.
What this means
The standard mainstream measure would not support a fair comparison for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school achieved zero, has no outcomes, or should be read as performing below a mainstream school.
Average A level grade (2024/25)
B-

A level entries are recorded consistently across school types, so this figure is shown.

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

Places offered
2

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice
0

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1564
Places
1450
How full
Full — 1564 pupils against 1450 places
Girls / boys
783 / 781
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
17%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, English as an additional language and SEN figures come from the state school census, which independent schools do not report into. Their records return structural zeros rather than measurements, so they are not shown here.

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not applicable to this state-funded mainstream release.

Evidence found
Not applicable to this state-funded mainstream release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
4

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
11

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
3
Busiest road nearby
A692

11,971 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
18

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Dunston Rail Station

1.3 km away — railway station

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
66%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
233

After sixth form

Went to university
70%

England 50%

In education, work or training
94%

England 84.4%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
126

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

39% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
79%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
135

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The area around the school

5/10 Deprivation decile

Among around the middle for England.

5/10 Child poverty decile

Among around the middle for England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£162,000

postcode sector NE11 0 · 111 sales

Typical range
£143,000 to £205,000

middle half of sales

Detached
£325,000
Semi-detached
£162,000
Terraced
£160,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than most of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
21%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
23%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
11%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
17%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
45%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
77%

England 62.7%

Social housing
11%

England 17%

Privately rented
12%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
55%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
17%

England 22.5%

No car
27%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Gateshead 019A and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
City technology college
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Principal: Nathanael Ogborn
Opened as this establishment
5 April 1991
Register status
Open
Local authority
Gateshead
Ward
Lobley Hill and Bensham
Constituency
Gateshead Central and Whickham
URN
108420

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Year 7

1.10 2015/16: 0.67 first choices per place2016/17: 0.01 first choices per place2017/18: 1.02 first choices per place2019/20: 1.00 first choices per place2023/24: 0.00 first choices per place2026/27: 0.00 first choices per place2015201720232026
All 6 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2015/16 3 2 0.67 100%
2016/17 149 1 0.01 0%
2017/18 137 140 1.02 98%
2019/20 168 168 1.00 100%
2023/24 1 0 0.00 —
2026/27 2 0 0.00 —

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8DistanceCompare
Kingsmeadow Community SchoolCommunity school Report card 2026 42.9 -0.75-0.97 to -0.53 0.9 mi
Grace CollegeAcademy converter Report card 2026 42.9 -1.07-1.26 to -0.88 1.6 mi
Gateshead Jewish Boarding SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 1.7 mi
Whickham SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 53 0.260.08 to 0.43 1.7 mi
North East Futures UTCUniversity technical college No overall grade 35.4 -1.34-1.58 to -1.09 2.2 mi
The Gateshead Cheder Primary SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 2.3 mi
Bahr AcademyOther independent school No overall grade — — 2.3 mi
Cardinal Hume Catholic School, GatesheadAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 53.2 0.710.53 to 0.89 2.7 mi

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 108420; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 15 October 2024
Progress 8DfE performance tables2023/24Exact URN; confidence interval retained
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

These sources are published for reuse under the Open Government Licence v3.0, including the Crown database-right notice that accompanies Price Paid Data. Definitions and source notes. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.

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