Acklam Grange School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Middlesbrough
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
0.545 miles
Published by Middlesbrough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Acklam Grange School is a secondary school in Middlesbrough for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 October 2022. Middlesbrough has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Acklam 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 | 0.545 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.545 miles away, nearer than in 2025 or 2022, and the distance swung sharply between some years.
- That 2026 Year 7 figure was the shortest of 6 Middlesbrough secondary schools with a published last distance, where the middle figure was 1.51 miles.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 409 first-choice applications for 287 offers; 276 offers went to first-choice families and 133 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 49% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 nearest secondary schools in Middlesbrough.
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
- Lodore Grove, Middlesbrough, TS5 8PB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Middlesbrough
- Pupils on roll
- 1,452 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 October 2022
Strengths
- “Difference is celebrated in this diverse school.”
- “There is genuine mutual respect between pupils and staff.”
- “Leaders go the extra mile to ensure that pupils are cared for, nurtured and developed.”
To improve
- “However, leaders have not fully assured themselves that all subjects expose pupils to the very best that has been thought and said.”
- “Leaders are developing the curriculum so that pupils can make stronger links between their knowledge from different subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 November 2022 (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) | 49% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 48.5 | 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: 409 first-preference applications, 287 offers in total, 276 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 Middlesbrough.
- Outwood Academy Acklam 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Trinity Catholic College 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Macmillan Academy 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- The King's Academy 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Riverside 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Lift Unity City 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Ormesby 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published