The School Record

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

Brambles Primary Academy

URN 138559 · Primary · Academy converter · Middlesbrough

Kedward Avenue, Middlesbrough, TS3 9DB

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

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, 39 families named Brambles Primary Academy as their first preference, and the school made 40 offers.

That is 0.97 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 49% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 49% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.87 in 2021–2022 and 0.99 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 39 74 40 0.97
2024 42 69 42 1.00
2023 44 66 44 1.00
2022 40 57 43 0.93
2021 36 59 44 0.82
2020 33 68 43 0.77
2019 38 57 38 1.00
2018 45 76 45 1.00
2017 43 92 45 0.96
2016 35 79 40 0.88
2015 40 79 43 0.93
2014 45 99 45 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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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), 28 January 2025

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: Outstanding

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 80.0% 11.0% 106.0 109.0
2023/24 73.0% 9.0% 103.0 106.0
2022/23 77.0% 13.0% 106.0 105.0

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 21.9 20.9 0.0 1.0 4.6%
2023/24 21.2 21.2 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 19.2 17.2 1.0 1.0 10.4%
2021/22 19.3 16.7 0.6 2.0 13.5%
2020/21 20.6 18.0 2.0 0.6 12.6%
2019/20 20.0 19.0 0.0 1.0 5.0%

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

Middlesbrough publishes an admission zone for this school (Brambles Primary), in force from 2021.

Covers: 157 live postcodes across 1.386 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Corpus Christi RC Primary School and St Alphonsus' Catholic Primary School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

48 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.

How places were allocated

Middlesbrough publishes these figures on national offer day, the day families are told which school their child has been given. It is the only place that says how the school chose between the children who applied.

2025 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 45

Places offered: 43

More children wanted a place than there were places: no

The rule that decided the last place: Late - Distance

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 0.43 miles away (689 m) (every child who applied got a place, so this is not a cut-off)

These distances are measured in a straight line across the map.

Children waiting for a place: 0

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Brambles Primary 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 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Brambles Primary 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.