Heworth Grange School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gateshead Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Heworth Grange School is a secondary school in Gateshead for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 12 November 2024. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Heworth Grange School 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
- In 2024/25, 26% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 36.4 (England 46).
- That 2024/25 figure of 26% was the lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest secondary schools in Gateshead that have results.
- Every Year 7 applicant for 2026 was offered a place: 152 first-choice applications for 207 offers, with 55 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 56.2% of pupils, against a middle figure of 29.9% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Gateshead.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gateshead schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- High Lanes, Felling, Gateshead, NE10 0PT
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 910 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 12 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at the school are polite, friendly and respectful.”
- “The school cares for its pupils.”
- “It provides them with effective pastoral support.”
To improve
- “However, pupils in key stage 4 have not experienced a consistently effective curriculum.”
- “Some pupils have high levels of absence.”
- “This means that some pupils have fundamental gaps in their knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 December 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) | 26% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 36.4 | 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, 207 offers in total, 152 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 Gateshead.
- XP Gateshead 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Gateshead 1.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Grace College 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy 3.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kingsmeadow Community School 4.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Whickham School 5.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon 6.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Thorp Academy 9.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published