Secondary
Teesdale School and Sixth Form
Prospect Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8HH
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 684 of 968 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.7
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- NORTH EAST LEARNING TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 46.2
- All staff (FTE)
- 57.5
- Pupils per adult
- 12.6
- Pupils
- 727
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
Outstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
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
49%
49.6
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 49.6 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.52 |
| Entered the EBacc | 63% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 72% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 49% |
| A level average points per entry | 34.14 |
| A level students | 29 |
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 | 60% |
| 22/23 | 51% |
| 23/24 | 61% |
| 24/25 | 49% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 36.5 |
| 22/23 | 35.2 |
| 23/24 | 37.9 |
| 24/25 | 34.1 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.30 |
| 22/23 | +0.21 |
| 23/24 | +0.27 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 55.2 |
| 22/23 | 52.1 |
| 23/24 | 53.4 |
| 24/25 | 49.6 |
Prospect Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8HH
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.
County Durham 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
- Hijab Zaheer
- Address
- Prospect Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8HH
- Telephone
- 01833638166