Highfield Middle School

Pupils

Pupils on roll

365

Places

480

How full

76% full — 365 of 480 places taken, so places are likely to be available

Girls / boys

184 / 181

Overall absence

6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent

15%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years

34%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language

2%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan

3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support

22%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 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

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.

The area around the school

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

£166,250

postcode sector NE42 6 · 163 sales

Typical range

£125,000 to £220,000

middle half of sales

Detached

£312,500

Semi-detached

£165,000

Terraced

£140,000

Flat

£98,750

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.

Homes here are cheap by national standards, yet the area is among the least deprived in England — typical of rural and small-town England, where low housing costs sit alongside comfortable incomes.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree

36%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications

14%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work

10%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways

18%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health

45%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier

84%

England 62.7%

Social housing

10%

England 17%

Privately rented

6%

England 19.2%

Detached homes

45%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms

21%

England 22.5%

No car

14%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Northumberland 038C 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

Academy converter

Phase

Middle deemed secondary

Ages

Ages 9–13

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

None

Sixth form

No

Nursery

No

Boarding

Day school

Trust

Cheviot Learning Trust

Headteacher

Headteacher: Richard Oades

Opened as this establishment

1 September 2019

Register status

Open

Local authority

Northumberland

Ward

Prudhoe West & Mickley

Constituency

Hexham

URN

146871

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.

Nearest middle deemed secondary schools

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.