The School Record

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

Ayresome Primary School

URN 146770 · Primary · Academy sponsor led · Middlesbrough

Worcester Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 4NT

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, 68 families named Ayresome Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 87 offers.

That is 0.78 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 6% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 6% 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 0.85 in 2021–2022 and 0.8 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 7 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 68 126 87 0.78
2024 62 132 76 0.82
2023 73 151 89 0.82
2022 77 126 85 0.91
2021 53 96 66 0.80
2020 72 125 78 0.92
2019 70 106 89 0.79

“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), 17 May 2023

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

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 46.0% 0.0% 101.0 101.0
2023/24 53.0% 1.0% 101.0 101.0
2022/23 36.0% 5.0% 98.0 100.0

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 39.3 38.3 1.0 0.0 2.5%
2023/24 40.3 35.3 2.0 3.0 12.4%
2022/23 39.8 30.8 4.6 4.4 22.6%
2021/22 41.2 35.2 2.0 4.0 14.6%
2020/21 36.8 32.0 2.2 2.6 13.0%
2019/20 36.9 31.2 0.8 5.0 15.7%

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 (Ayresome Primary), in force from 2021.

Covers: 164 live postcodes across 0.859 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Sacred Heart Primary School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

71 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: 90

Places offered: 87

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: 0.33 miles away (528 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 Ayresome Primary 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 primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Ayresome Primary 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.