Hebburn Comprehensive School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–16 · Hebburn, South Tyneside
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.699 miles
Published by South Tyneside Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hebburn Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Hebburn, South Tyneside for ages 11–16 (community school). South Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Hebburn Comprehensive School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 2.699 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 2024/25: 44% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 3rd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 nearest secondary schools in South Tyneside.
- In 2026 the last child offered a Year 7 place lived 2.699 miles away, longest of 8 South Tyneside secondary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.49 miles).
- There were 119 first-choice applications for 151 Year 7 offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 32 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 50.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.3% across the 7 nearest secondary schools in South Tyneside.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other South Tyneside schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Campbell Park Road, Hebburn, NE31 2QU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- South Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 857 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 50.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 9 December 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils and staff share warm, positive relationships.”
- “Pupils value the support that staff offer them academically and pastorally.”
- “The school prioritises pupils' wellbeing so that they are ready to learn.”
To improve
- “However, pupils are still absent too often.”
- “This impacts negatively on their achievement.”
- “In the past, the progress pupils made from their starting points was below average.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 January 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 44% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 44.2 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 119 first-preference applications, 151 offers in total, 119 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in South Tyneside.
- St Joseph's Catholic Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Jarrow School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Boldon School 2.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Wilfrid's RC College 3.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Mortimer Community College 3.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Harton Academy 4.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Whitburn Church of England Academy 5.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published