Rose Wood Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Middlesbrough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
13.485 miles
Published by Middlesbrough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rose Wood Academy is a primary school in Middlesbrough for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 27 November 2024. Middlesbrough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Rose Wood Academy 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 | 13.485 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 13.485 miles away, the 2nd longest of 41 Middlesbrough primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The distance has swung sharply between years, most of all from 2025 to 2026, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 47 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- The Garth, Coulby Farm Way, Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, TS8 0UG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Middlesbrough
- Pupils on roll
- 368 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 27 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are eager to learn at this friendly school.”
- “The school is ambitious for what pupils can achieve.”
- “Pupils meet these aspirations and broadly achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not achieve the higher standards in core subjects as they should.”
- “In lessons some pupils do not keep up as well as their peers.”
- “This is because work sometimes moves on too quickly or pupils do not grasp the most effective methods rapidly enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 January 2025 (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) | 66% | 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: 47 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 47 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.
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Gerard's RC Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sunnyside Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Lingfield Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Viewley Hill Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Captain Cook Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Marton Manor Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hemlington Hall Academy 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published