Secondary
Norham High School
Alnwick Avenue, North Shields, NE29 7BU
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Foundation school
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 498 of 520 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.0
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Trust
- The North Tyneside Learning Trust
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 25.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 53.7
- Pupils per adult
- 7.7
- Pupils
- 411
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2022
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
October 2018
Previous framework
Inadequate
- Leadership and governanceInadequate
GCSE results
24%
16 points below the North Shields average (40% across 4 schools)
42.7
4.4 below the North Shields average (47.1 across 4 schools)
3rd of 4 by our score, among the secondary schools in North Shields we can score - 5 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 42.7 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.57 |
| Entered the EBacc | 20% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 56% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 24% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 22% |
| 22/23 | 28% |
| 23/24 | 29% |
| 24/25 | 24% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.72 |
| 22/23 | +0.40 |
| 23/24 | +0.20 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 41.0 |
| 22/23 | 42.8 |
| 23/24 | 40.2 |
| 24/25 | 42.7 |
Alnwick Avenue, North Shields, NE29 7BU
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
North Tyneside admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Executive Headteacher
- Terence Richard Conway
- Address
- Alnwick Avenue, North Shields, NE29 7BU
- Telephone
- 01918143890