The Orme Academy

Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Newcastle, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Year 7 2026

5.516 miles

Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026

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The Orme Academy is a secondary school in Newcastle, Staffordshire for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 18 June 2024. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.

The Orme 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	5.516 mi
Year 7 2025	🔒 With a pass
Year 7 2024	🔒 With a pass

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

Year 7 2026's last distance offered, 5.516 miles, was the 4th longest of the 18 Staffordshire secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance (middle figure 3.52 miles).
The 2026 Year 7 last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
Year 7 2026 had 152 first-choice applications for 169 offers; 151 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (1%) was not offered a place.
In 2024/25, 35% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Staffordshire.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Milehouse Lane, Newcastle, ST5 9JU
Type: Academy sponsor led
Phase: Secondary
Ages: 11–16
Admissions policy: Non-selective
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 768 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 23% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 17.1

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Good Inspected 18 June 2024

Strengths

“The Orme Academy staff and pupils share the same high aspirations.”
“Pupils understand and follow the ambition around ‘empowering learners for life’.”
“Pupils say this ambition helps them focus on how to develop positively as young people.”

To improve

“However, these improvements have not yet led to consistently improving outcomes by the end of key stage 4.”
“However, there are times when some teachers do not check pupils’ understanding carefully enough.”
“As a result, they do not have a sufficiently detailed understanding of whether pupils have remembered what they have learned before.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 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)	35%	45%
Attainment 8 score (2024/25)	43.8	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: 152 first-preference applications, 169 offers in total, 151 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 Staffordshire.

St John Fisher Catholic College 0.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
Chesterton Community Sports College 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
Newcastle Academy 1.9 mi Good
Clayton Hall Academy 2.7 mi Good
Sir Thomas Boughey Academy 3.5 mi No Ofsted grade
The King's CofE Academy 4.1 mi School remains Good
Kidsgrove Secondary School 4.6 mi Good
Madeley High School 5.1 mi Improved significantly Last distance published