Secondary
George Stephenson High School
Southgate, Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE12 6SA
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Foundation school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1233 of 1227 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
- Local authority
- North Tyneside
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 68.9
- All staff (FTE)
- 99.1
- Pupils per adult
- 12.2
- Pupils
- 1,207
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 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
SafeguardingMet
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. 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.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
42%
2 points above the North Tyneside average (40% across 10 schools)
48.0
1.9 above the North Tyneside average (46.1 across 10 schools)
7th of 14 by our score, among the secondary schools in North Tyneside we can score - 17 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 | 48 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.14 |
| Entered the EBacc | 21% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 64% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 42% |
| A level average points per entry | 33.31 |
| A level students | 48 |
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 | 51% |
| 22/23 | 44% |
| 23/24 | 31% |
| 24/25 | 42% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 40.6 |
| 22/23 | 30.3 |
| 23/24 | 33.1 |
| 24/25 | 33.3 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.02 |
| 22/23 | -0.05 |
| 23/24 | -0.34 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 51.7 |
| 22/23 | 49.3 |
| 23/24 | 42.8 |
| 24/25 | 48.0 |
Southgate, Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE12 6SA
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
- Headteacher
- Peter Douthwaite
- Address
- Southgate, Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE12 6SA
- Telephone
- 01912161115