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Secondary school in Prudhoe, Northumberland

Prudhoe Community High School

Moor Road, Prudhoe, Northumberland, NE42 5LJ

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 01661832486

Ofsted

Goodas at 6 December 2023

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 6 December 2023.

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

46.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

39% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

71% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

40% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.08confidence interval -0.12 to 0.28

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. 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
34.8

England average 32.3

A level students
88

Pupils

Pupils on roll
680
Places
860
How full
79% full — 680 of 860 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
348 / 332
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
28%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
21%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
2%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
12%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
88%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
54%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
188

After sixth form

Went to university
54%

England 50%

In education, work or training
93%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
17%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
108

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

24% 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
60%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
95

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 Northumberland 038C, 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
36%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
14%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
84%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
10%

England 17%

Households with no car
14%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
43%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 13–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
CHEVIOT LEARNING TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Annmarie Moore
Local authority
Northumberland
Ward
Prudhoe South
Constituency
Hexham
URN
146926

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Highfield Middle SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 0.3 mi
Ovingham Middle SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 1.2 mi
Thorp AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 47.2 3.2 mi
St Thomas More Catholic School, BlaydonAcademy converter Good 2023 51.9 5.1 mi
Walbottle AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 46.6 5.2 mi
Excelsior AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 33.4 6.5 mi
Studio WestStudio schools No grade 30.9 6.6 mi
Whickham SchoolAcademy converter No grade 53 6.7 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
Redruth SchoolFoundation school No grade 45.7
Claverham Community CollegeCommunity school Good 2024 50.3
Exmouth Community CollegeAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 46.1
West London Free SchoolFree schools Good 2022 69.2
Hummersknott AcademyAcademy converter No grade 47.8
South Wigston High SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 34.5
The Cherwell SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 58.3
Abbeyfield SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 44

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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