The School Record

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

Acklam Grange School

URN 145774 · Secondary · Academy converter · Middlesbrough

Lodore Grove, Middlesbrough, TS5 8PB

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, 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, 400 families named Acklam Grange School as their first preference, and the school made 290 offers.

That is 1.38 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 90% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 90% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.53 in 2021–2022 and 1.43 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 7 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 400 1009 290 1.38
2024 424 984 288 1.47
2023 462 1054 288 1.60
2022 445 1096 287 1.55
2021 439 1023 292 1.50
2020 457 1018 290 1.58
2019 445 898 290 1.53

“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 ungraded inspection, 6 October 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 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 48.50 - 71.6% 32.3%
2023/24 48.30 0.33
likely between 0.16 and 0.49		 68.5% 28.1%
2022/23 50.30 0.41
likely between 0.25 and 0.58		 73.0% 24.1%

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.

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 88.4 78.8 4.0 5.6 10.9%
2023/24 93.7 83.2 4.0 6.5 11.2%
2022/23 96.7 88.5 2.6 5.6 8.5%
2021/22 94.4 90.4 2.0 2.0 4.2%
2020/21 94.8 88.9 1.0 4.9 6.2%
2019/20 97.6 90.6 3.0 4.0 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

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

Covers: 559 live postcodes across 9.189 km².

49 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: 294

Places offered: 294

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

The rule that decided the last place: Distance

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 1.23 miles away (1981 m)

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

Children waiting for a place: 164

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Acklam Grange School. 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 secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Acklam Grange School.

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.