Lift Caldicotes
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Middlesbrough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.302 miles
Published by Middlesbrough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lift Caldicotes is a primary school in Middlesbrough for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 24 September 2024. Middlesbrough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Lift Caldicotes 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 |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.302 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 85% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Middlesbrough.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.302 miles away, the 6th shortest of 41 Middlesbrough primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception last distances have swung sharply between years; the 2026 figure was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2022.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 21 first-choice applications for 23 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
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
- Spencerfield Crescent, Middlesbrough, TS3 9HD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Middlesbrough
- Pupils on roll
- 234 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 62% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 24 September 2024
Strengths
- “Caldicotes Primary Academy supports and encourages every pupil to achieve their full potential.”
- “Starting in the early years, pupils learn to respect everyone and to take pride in their learning.”
- “Pupils know that their teachers really care about them and expect them to try hard.”
To improve
- “However, some subject curriculums have not been in place for very long.”
- “In other subjects, such as history, this is not yet the case.”
- “At times, teachers do not make effective checks on what pupils already know and can do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 85% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 21 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 21 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 primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Middlesbrough.
- Brambles Primary Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Thorntree Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Corpus Christi RC Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pallister Park Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pennyman Primary Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Alphonsus' Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Lift North Ormesby 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Berwick Hills Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published