SF School Facts UK

Secondary school in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside

Monkseaton High School

Seatonville Road, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, NE25 9EQ

Sixth form
School website 01912979700

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 13 May 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

41 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

34% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

53% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

32% England 40.8%

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

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.46confidence interval -0.68 to -0.24

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as supp.

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
D+
Average points per entry
23.4

England average 32.3

A level students
20

Pupils

Pupils on roll
155
Places
955
How full
16% full — 155 of 955 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
76 / 79
Overall absence
13%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
33%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
31%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
6%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
86%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
74%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
34%
No sustained destination
13%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
104

After sixth form

Went to university
51%

England 50%

In education, work or training
82%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
39

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

13% 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
58%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
31

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 013C, 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
33%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
14%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
85%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
16%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
38%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Foundation school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 13–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
The North Tyneside Learning Trust
Headteacher
Headteacher: Deon Krishnan
Local authority
North Tyneside
Ward
Monkseaton
Constituency
Tynemouth
URN
108642

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Monkseaton Middle SchoolFoundation school Good 2021 0.5 mi
Marden Bridge Middle SchoolFoundation school No grade 0.8 mi
John Spence Community High SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2023 41 0.8 mi
Marden High SchoolFoundation school Good 2022 55.1 0.9 mi
St Thomas More Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 49.6 1 mi
Valley Gardens Middle SchoolFoundation school No grade 1.1 mi
Whitley Bay High SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2024 54.2 1.2 mi
Wellfield Middle SchoolFoundation school Good 2024 1.3 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary 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
Leigh Academy TonbridgeAcademy converter Good 2022 43.1
Feversham Girls' Secondary AcademyAcademy converter No grade 54.8
Whitefriars SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 43
Stalham High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 39.5
The Banovallum SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 41.9
The Khalsa Academy WolverhamptonFree schools Good 2023 49.4
Sir Thomas Boughey AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 35.1
Greenford High SchoolFoundation school No grade 48.6

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.

All published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.