Manor Community Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Hartlepool
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hartlepool Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Manor Community Academy is a secondary school in Hartlepool for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Hartlepool has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Manor Community 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 |
|---|---|
| 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
- Every Year 7 applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 2 of the 4 other Hartlepool secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- Year 7 2026 had 163 first-choice applications for 168 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25: 50% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 2nd highest of 5 schools: this one and the 4 nearest secondary schools in Hartlepool.
- The school has 21 pupils per teacher, where the middle figure across the 4 nearest secondary schools in Hartlepool is 14.9.
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
- Owton Manor Lane, Hartlepool, TS25 3PS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hartlepool
- Pupils on roll
- 984 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 55.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 11 November 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive at Manor Community Academy.”
- “The school supports disadvantaged pupils very well.”
- “Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), pupils known to social care, and looked-after pupils, all make significant progress from their starting points, academically, socially and emotionally.”
To improve
- “Occasionally, some pupils misbehave and do not meet the school's high expectations.”
- “Rates of suspension have been high but are currently falling.”
- “However, the impact of the school's work in this area is less well developed than from the academic offer.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 January 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) | 50% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 46.9 | 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: 163 first-preference applications, 168 offers in total, 163 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.
- English Martyrs Catholic School and Sixth Form College 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- High Tunstall College of Science 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dyke House Sports and Technology College 2.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Hild's Church of England School 3.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published