The School Record

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

Lift North Ormesby

URN 138854 · Primary · Academy converter · Middlesbrough

James Street, Middlesbrough, TS3 6LB

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, 23 families named Lift North Ormesby as their first preference, and the school made 26 offers.

That is 0.88 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 19% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 19% 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 0.86 in 2021–2022 and 0.94 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 23 39 26 0.88
2024 23 43 23 1.00
2023 29 46 29 1.00
2022 31 46 31 1.00
2021 24 35 33 0.73
2020 24 39 25 0.96
2019 30 38 31 0.97
2018 31 43 40 0.78
2017 22 37 34 0.65
2016 32 52 36 0.89
2015 26 48 39 0.67
2014 33 50 35 0.94

“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), 1 October 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 63.0% 6.0% 104.0 105.0
2023/24 66.0% 6.0% 104.0 104.0
2022/23 54.0% 11.0% 102.0 101.0

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 10.1 9.1 1.0 0.0 9.9%
2023/24 13.2 10.2 2.0 1.0 22.7%
2022/23 15.2 10.4 3.2 1.6 31.6%
2021/22 12.6 10.6 2.0 0.0 15.9%
2020/21 15.0 10.0 1.0 4.0 33.3%
2019/20 14.2 12.6 0.0 1.6 11.3%

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

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

Covers: 118 live postcodes across 1.001 km².

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

24 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: 30

Places offered: 26

More children wanted a place than there were places: no

The rule that decided the last place: Late - Catchment

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 0.29 miles away (470 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 Lift North Ormesby. 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 Lift North Ormesby.

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.