The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

The Sele First School

URN 122242 · Primary · Community school · Northumberland

The Sele, Hexham, NE46 3QZ

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 60 families named The Sele First School as their first preference, and the school made 59 offers.

That is 1.02 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 77% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 77% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.97 in 2021–2022 and 1.01 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 60 73 59 1.02
2024 76 109 76 1.00
2023 46 58 48 0.96
2022 64 82 64 1.00
2021 49 74 52 0.94
2020 65 88 65 1.00
2019 54 75 54 1.00
2018 77 102 79 0.97
2017 76 94 77 0.99
2016 61 93 62 0.98
2015 66 93 66 1.00
2014 55 78 55 1.00

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 14 June 2022

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 19.1 17.1 2.0 0.0 10.5%
2023/24 18.9 18.5 0.0 0.4 2.1%
2022/23 19.0 18.0 1.0 0.0 5.3%
2021/22 21.6 18.0 2.6 1.0 16.7%
2020/21 18.9 18.9 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 19.2 17.6 0.6 1.0 8.3%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Northumberland publishes an admission zone for this school (The Sele First School).

Covers: 412 live postcodes across 21.464 km².

39 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for The Sele First School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from The Sele First School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.