Dyke House Sports and Technology College
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Hartlepool
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.64 miles
Published by Hartlepool Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dyke House Sports and Technology College is a secondary school in Hartlepool for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 15 March 2022. Hartlepool has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Dyke House Sports and Technology College 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 | 1.64 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Ofsted rated it Outstanding (15 March 2022); of the 4 nearest secondary schools in Hartlepool, 3 have no current grade and 1 Requires improvement.
- In 2024/25, 57% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the highest of 5 schools: this one and the 4 nearest secondary schools in Hartlepool.
- For Year 7 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.64 miles away, further than in 2025.
- Year 7 2026 drew 239 first-choice applications for 264 offers; 237 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Hartlepool schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Mapleton Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8NQ
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hartlepool
- Pupils on roll
- 1,293 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 15 March 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils who attend Dyke House benefit greatly from a high-quality education.”
- “Staff are united in their relentless determination to ensure that pupils aim high, achieve well and have every chance of success in life.”
- “They put pupils first and have consistently high expectations of them.”
To improve
- “Leaders should further embed their work linked to the curriculum to help ensure that there are exceptionally high standards of teaching across the school.”
- “Leaders should build on existing strengths to further increase pupils' sustained participation in the school's enrichment offer.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 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) | 57% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 49.2 | 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: 239 first-preference applications, 264 offers in total, 237 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 Hartlepool.
- St Hild's Church of England School 1.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- High Tunstall College of Science 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- English Martyrs Catholic School and Sixth Form College 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Manor Community Academy 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published