Secondary
Lift Unity City
Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RE
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1033 of 1050 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.2
- Local authority
- Middlesbrough
- SEN provision
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- LIFT SCHOOLS
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 61.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 104.9
- Pupils per adult
- 9.5
- Pupils
- 996
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 April 2026
- AchievementNeeds attention
- Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
- Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
- InclusionExpected standard
- Leadership and governanceExpected standard
- Personal development and wellbeingExpected standard
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections2
May 2022
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
September 2018
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
GCSE results
21%
14 points below the Middlesbrough average (35% across 11 schools)
34.2
6.4 below the Middlesbrough average (40.6 across 11 schools)
9th of 11 by our score, among the secondary schools in Middlesbrough we can score - 15 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 | 34.2 |
| EBacc average point score | 2.8 |
| Entered the EBacc | 25% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 41% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 21% |
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 | 14% |
| 22/23 | 13% |
| 23/24 | 18% |
| 24/25 | 21% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.30 |
| 22/23 | -0.57 |
| 23/24 | -0.87 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 39.3 |
| 22/23 | 35.7 |
| 23/24 | 31.8 |
| 24/25 | 34.2 |
Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RE
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.
Middlesbrough 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
- Principal
- Jill Gray
- Address
- Ormesby Road, Middlesbrough, TS3 8RE
- Telephone
- 01642326262