The School Record

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

Kader Academy

URN 140869 · Primary · Academy converter · Middlesbrough

Staindrop Drive, Middlesbrough, TS5 8NU

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, 41 families named Kader Academy as their first preference, and the school made 49 offers.

That is 0.84 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 12% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 12% 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 0.97 in 2021–2022 and 0.86 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 11 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 41 99 49 0.84
2024 40 103 45 0.89
2023 55 142 59 0.93
2022 57 124 60 0.95
2021 59 130 60 0.98
2020 63 145 60 1.05
2019 54 105 60 0.90
2018 40 76 44 0.91
2017 54 122 60 0.90
2016 40 103 45 0.89
2015 63 123 60 1.05

“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 2022 to 202620222026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 19 May 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Achievement: Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Early years: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 28 April 2022

School remains Good

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 72.0% 21.0% 109.0 108.0
2023/24 78.0% 15.0% 107.0 109.0
2022/23 78.0% 20.0% 109.0 110.0

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 20.6 19.2 1.0 0.4 6.8%
2023/24 24.8 17.8 3.0 4.0 28.2%
2022/23 23.0 23.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 19.4 18.4 1.0 0.0 5.2%
2020/21 19.4 17.4 1.0 1.0 10.3%
2019/20 15.2 15.2 0.0 0.0 0.0%

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 (Kader Primary), in force from 2021.

Covers: 142 live postcodes across 1.887 km².

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

20 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: 60

Places offered: 50

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: 1.94 miles away (3122 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 Kader 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 Kader 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.