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Secondary school in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Stephenson Square, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 3AS

Sixth form
School website 01919179888
Ofsted No grade May 2025
Attainment 8 35.4 in the bottom 10% nationally
Pupils 314 52% full
Local deprivation 3/10 more deprived

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 7 May 2025.

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
513 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”.

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

35.4 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

54% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

3% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

-1.34confidence interval -1.58 to -1.09

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
C+
Average points per entry
32.9

England average 32.3

A level students
13

Pupils

Pupils on roll
314
Places
600
How full
52% full — 314 of 600 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
159 / 155
Overall absence
16%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
46%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
54%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
22%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
2%

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

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
2

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
100

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
26
Busiest road nearby
A189

37,663 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
27

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Newcastle Rail Station

0.2 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
80%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
76%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
16%
No sustained destination
16%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
85

After sixth form

Went to university
46%

England 50%

In education, work or training
77%

England 84.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
39

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

15% 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
67%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
27

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

3/10 Deprivation decile

Among the more deprived half of England.

6/10 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
£162,500

postcode sector NE1 3 · 34 sales

Typical range
£135,262 to £227,500

middle half of sales

Flat
£162,500

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
64%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
6%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
9%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
15%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
57%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
18%

England 62.7%

Social housing
18%

England 17%

Privately rented
63%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
4%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
7%

England 22.5%

No car
61%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Newcastle upon Tyne 036D 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
University technical college
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 14–19
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Daniel Sydes-Danvers
Opened as this establishment
1 September 2018
Register status
Open
Local authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Ward
Monument
Constituency
Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West
URN
145900

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.

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Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8DistanceCompare
The Gateshead Cheder Primary SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.9 mi
Gateshead Jewish Boarding SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.9 mi
Bahr AcademyOther independent school No overall grade — — 1 mi
Royal Grammar SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 1.2 mi
Newcastle High School for Girls GDSTOther independent school No overall grade — — 1.5 mi
Dame Allan's SchoolsOther independent school No overall grade — — 1.8 mi
Kingsmeadow Community SchoolCommunity school Report card 2026 42.9 -0.75-0.97 to -0.53 1.9 mi
Sacred Heart Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 52.1 0.540.35 to 0.73 2 mi

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.

This school 35.4
Median of its 9 closest peers 49.6
Newcastle upon Tyne average 40
England average 47

Attainment 8 score. This school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8Compare
St Aloysius' CollegeAcademy converter London Good 2022 — —
Notre Dame Catholic Girls' SchoolAcademy converter London Requires improvement 2024 42.8 0.25-0.01 to 0.52 · not a win
Lift Beacon HighAcademy converter London Good 2022 — —
Connaught School for GirlsAcademy converter London No overall grade 50.6 -0.18-0.44 to 0.08 · not a win
South Bank University AcademyAcademy sponsor led London Report card 2026 41.5 -0.16-0.42 to 0.10 · not a win
Harris Science Academy East LondonFree schools London No overall grade 56.9 0.17-0.15 to 0.50 · not a win
King's Leadership Academy WavertreeFree schools Liverpool No overall grade — —
Turves Green Boys' SchoolAcademy sponsor led Birmingham Good 2024 37.3 -0.01-0.27 to 0.25 · not a win
St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England SchoolVoluntary aided school London Good 2022 52.7 0.580.33 to 0.84
Brook Sixth Form and AcademyUniversity technical college Dagenham No overall grade 38.7 -0.60-1.30 to 0.09 · not a win
Harris Girls' Academy East DulwichAcademy sponsor led London Outstanding 2023 54.3 0.400.17 to 0.63
Phoenix AcademyAcademy sponsor led London No overall grade 49.6 0.870.56 to 1.17

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.

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 145900; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 7 May 2025
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Progress 8DfE performance tables2023/24Exact URN; confidence interval retained
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

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