North Gosforth Academy

Type Secondary / Academy sponsor led
Age Range 11-16
Religion Unknown
Address Dudley Lane
Seaton Burn
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE13 6EJ
Phone 01912361700
Reference Number 144279

General Makeup

Number of pupils 552
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 53.8%
Girls: 46.2%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 35.9%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 3.3%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 21.7

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 56 54 110
8 64 64 128
9 69 47 116
10 62 41 103
11 46 49 95

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 91.3%
African 2.4%
Mixed, Other 0.9%
White, Other 0.7%
Chinese 0.7%
Indian 0.7%
White & Asian 0.5%
White & Black (African) 0.5%
Pakistani 0.4%
White & Black (Caribbean) 0.2%
Unclassified 0.2%

Overall Ofsted Rating As of September 2024, Ofsted no longer give a one word rating for schools. See our blog post for more details.
Last Inspection Date 2025-01-15
Date Description Report
2024-11-26 School inspection School inspection
2022-04-27 School inspection: School inspection:

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
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GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 36.8% Unlock Unlock
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 52.6% Unlock Unlock

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
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Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

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GCSE Results

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Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

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2024 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
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Second Preference 34 6
Third Preference 33 5
From another Local Authority 85 33

Previous Years

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Destinations after GCSE's

Data relates to students who sat their GCSE's in 2022 and was last updated in May 2024.

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