Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Gateshead
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gateshead Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Gateshead is a secondary school in Gateshead for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 14 May 2024. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Gateshead 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- There were 363 first-choice applications for 257 Year 7 offers in 2026; 252 offers went to first-choice families, and 111 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 1.4 first choices per offer, the 2nd highest of 9 Gateshead secondary schools.
- 95 of the 827 applications (11%) for Year 7 in 2026 came from families living outside Gateshead; 25 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 55% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 53.2 (England 46).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gateshead schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Old Durham Road, Beacon Lough, Gateshead, NE9 6RZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 1,505 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 14 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils receive an exceptional quality of education at this school.”
- “Over time, pupils become increasingly expert in the subjects that they study.”
- “Beyond academic learning, the school’s work to develop pupils’ character is exemplary.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 July 2024 (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) | 55% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 53.2 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | B- |
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: 363 first-preference applications, 257 offers in total, 252 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 Gateshead.
- XP Gateshead 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Heworth Grange School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Grace College 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kingsmeadow Community School 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Whickham School 4.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon 6.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Thorp Academy 8.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published