Thorntree Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · Middlesbrough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.407 miles
Published by Middlesbrough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Thorntree Academy is a primary school in Middlesbrough for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 9 April 2024. Middlesbrough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Thorntree 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 | 0.407 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
- Its Reception 2026 last distance offered, 0.407 miles, was the 11th shortest of the 41 Middlesbrough primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle was 0.92 miles.
- That 2026 Reception distance was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2022, after a sharp swing between 2023 and 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 22 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary 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
- The Greenway, Middlesbrough, TS3 9NH
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Middlesbrough
- Pupils on roll
- 252 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 63.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 9 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Thorntree are happy and safe.”
- “They embody the school values of ‘learn, thrive, and celebrate’.”
- “Pupils appreciate the work that leaders do to promote high aspirations for later life through the school’s ‘Future You’ programme.”
To improve
- “However, published phonics outcomes for 2023 do not reflect the impact of the school’s quality phonics provision.”
- “These outcomes were wellbelow national figures.”
- “However, the proportion of pupils who are persistently absent is too high.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 May 2024 (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) | 74% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 22 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.
- Lift Caldicotes 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pennyman Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Brambles Primary Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Corpus Christi RC Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pallister Park Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Park End Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Pius X Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Berwick Hills Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published