Lift Unity City
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Middlesbrough
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.013 miles
Published by Middlesbrough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lift Unity City is a secondary school in Middlesbrough for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Middlesbrough has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Lift Unity City 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 | 1.013 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Year 7 place lived 1.013 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 6 Middlesbrough secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Year 7 last distance was nearer the school than in 2025, and the shortest of the 5 years with a published distance; it swung sharply between some years.
- Year 7 2026: 175 first-choice applications for 196 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 21 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 21% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 nearest secondary schools in Middlesbrough.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Middlesbrough schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Middlesbrough
- Pupils on roll
- 1,033 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 72% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 21 April 2026
Strengths
- “Staff place pupils' safety and wellbeing at the centre of their work.”
- “Pupils benefit from this focus.”
- “Leaders put routines in place at the start of the school day to check that pupils are safe and ready to learn.”
To improve
- “On occasion, behaviour outside of classrooms can be livelier, although not ill-tempered.”
- “Leaders are taking action to address the concerns that some pupils express over congestion on the busy stairways.”
- “Pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, have not achieved well enough over time.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 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) | 21% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 34.2 | 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: 175 first-preference applications, 196 offers in total, 175 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 Middlesbrough.
- Outwood Academy Ormesby 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Trinity Catholic College 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Riverside 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Acklam 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The King's Academy 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Macmillan Academy 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Acklam Grange School 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published