The School Record

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

Bede Academy

URN 135619 · All Through · Academy sponsor led · Northumberland

Sixth Avenue, Blyth, NE24 2SY

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, 67 families named Bede Academy as their first preference, and the school made 69 offers.

That is 0.97 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 48% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 48% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.1 in 2021–2022 and 0.97 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 67 92 69 0.97
2024 65 98 67 0.97
2023 97 130 90 1.08
2022 112 143 90 1.24
2021 83 117 87 0.95
2020 85 125 87 0.98
2019 94 144 90 1.04
2018 96 153 90 1.07
2017 114 156 90 1.27
2016 121 168 90 1.34
2015 100 161 89 1.12
2014 108 151 90 1.20

“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 inspections from 2023 to 202420232024

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 30 April 2024

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 21 June 2023

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 48.90 - 69.3% 32.7%
2023/24 46.70 -0.10
likely between -0.29 and 0.09		 71.8% 30.0%
2022/23 41.30 -0.35
likely between -0.55 and -0.15		 58.0% 22.3%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 69.0% 14.0% 109.0 108.0
2023/24 81.0% 16.0% 108.0 107.0
2022/23 79.0% 22.0% 108.0 108.0

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
2024/25 107.1 97.3 2.0 7.8 9.2%
2023/24 115.4 98.2 6.6 10.6 14.9%
2022/23 105.2 92.2 7.0 6.0 12.4%
2021/22 102.3 95.7 4.4 2.2 6.5%
2020/21 106.8 86.6 5.9 14.3 18.9%
2019/20 91.9 85.3 3.6 3.0 7.2%

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 (Bede Academy).

Covers: 167 live postcodes across 2.204 km².

21 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.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Northumberland publishes an admission zone for this school (Bede Academy).

Covers: 335 live postcodes across 7.488 km².

19 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 Bede Academy. 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 2 nearest all through schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Bede Academy.

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.