The School Record

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

Hemlington Hall Academy

URN 145136 · Primary · Academy sponsor led · Middlesbrough

Briscoe Way, Middlesbrough, TS8 9SJ

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, 36 families named Hemlington Hall Academy as their first preference, and the school made 29 offers.

That is 1.24 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 92% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 92% 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 0.94 in 2021–2022 and 1.15 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 8 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 36 56 29 1.24
2024 32 50 30 1.07
2023 32 64 33 0.97
2022 30 51 32 0.94
2021 39 64 41 0.95
2020 36 55 38 0.95
2019 24 38 24 1.00
2018 27 42 28 0.96

“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 inspections from 2021 to 202620212026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 28 April 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Early years: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 6 October 2021

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

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 57.0% 17.0% 106.0 104.0
2023/24 57.0% 11.0% 105.0 104.0
2022/23 64.0% 7.0% 103.0 103.0

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 17.5 15.5 2.0 0.0 11.4%
2023/24 18.4 17.9 0.0 0.5 2.7%
2022/23 18.9 15.9 1.0 2.0 15.9%
2021/22 17.9 16.9 1.0 0.0 5.6%
2020/21 16.1 14.1 1.0 1.0 12.4%
2019/20 17.9 15.9 0.0 2.0 11.2%

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

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

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: 30

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The rule that decided the last place: Sibling

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 1.96 miles away (3154 m)

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

Children waiting for a place: 7

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Hemlington Hall 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.