Gosforth East Middle School

Gosforth East Middle School is maintaining its status as a good educational establishment, known for its warm and caring community. The school demonstrates strong relationships between students and staff, promoting a safe and supportive environment where pupils feel confident seeking help. Additionally, the school's personal development programme and leadership opportunities strengthen students' overall experience, allowing them to excel academically while preparing them for their future educational transitions.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between pupils and adults contribute to a supportive learning environment.
• An impressive personal development programme enhances student education.
• Pupils exhibit resilience and effective leadership skills through various roles and activities.
• Well-planned and skillfully taught curriculum leads to high achievement across subjects.
• High profile of reading and diverse text exposure strengthens pupils' literacy.
• Effective safeguarding measures create a safe school culture.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects lack systematic approaches for teaching complex skills and concepts.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Gosforth East Middle School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 12.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 2.2% of pupils at Gosforth East Middle School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Gosforth East Middle School had 19.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 15.3% of pupils at Gosforth East Middle School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 3.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Gosforth East Middle School received £7,001 and spent £6,904 for each of its 557 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £189,000 (£339 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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Gosforth East Middle School is part of Gosforth Schools' Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

• Gosforth Park First School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
• Gosforth Central Middle School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
• Grange First School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
• Archibald First School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
• Regent Farm First School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
• South Gosforth First School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
• Brunton First School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
• Havannah First School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
• Dinnington First School Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

What is Gosforth East Middle School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Gosforth East Middle School is Good, from an inspection in September 2023.

When was Gosforth East Middle School last inspected by Ofsted?

Gosforth East Middle School was last inspected in September 2023.

How many pupils does Gosforth East Middle School have?

Gosforth East Middle School has 557 pupils on roll.

What age range does Gosforth East Middle School cover?

Gosforth East Middle School for pupils aged 9 to 13.

What are Gosforth East Middle School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Gosforth East Middle School?

Gosforth East Middle School is at Harewood Road, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE3 5JT.