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All-through school in North Shields, North Tyneside

Kings Priory School

Huntington Place, Tynemouth, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE30 4RF

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form Full
School website 01915802700

Ofsted

Goodas at 27 June 2024

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 27 June 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

57.1 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

74% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

94% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

57% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.84confidence interval 0.60 to 1.09

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
35.7

England average 32.3

A level students
102

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1549
Places
1505
How full
Full — 1549 pupils against 1505 places
Girls / boys
723 / 826
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
9%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
11%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
10%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
96%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
66%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
126

After sixth form

Went to university
68%

England 50%

In education, work or training
92%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
88

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

42% 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
83%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
98

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 neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for North Tyneside 016A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
54%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
12%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
65%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
9%

England 17%

Households with no car
25%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
45%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 4–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
WOODARD ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Principal: Philip Sanderson
Local authority
North Tyneside
Ward
Tynemouth
Constituency
Tynemouth
URN
139658

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Marden High SchoolFoundation school Good 2022 55.1 0.8 mi
John Spence Community High SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2023 41 1 mi
Marden Bridge Middle SchoolFoundation school No grade 1.7 mi
Monkseaton High SchoolFoundation school No grade 41 1.7 mi
Monkseaton Middle SchoolFoundation school Good 2021 2 mi
St Thomas More Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 49.6 2 mi
Norham High SchoolFoundation school Good 2022 42.7 2.1 mi
Whitley Bay High SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2024 54.2 2.6 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Chesterton Community CollegeAcademy converter No grade 68
Kesgrave High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 49.7
John Colet SchoolAcademy converter No grade 47.6
Stokesley SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 45.3
Brayton AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 53.4
St Crispin's SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51.7
Culcheth High SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 51.1
Fullbrook SchoolAcademy converter No grade 52.6

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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