United Kingdom / Regions / County Durham
County Durham
North East, England · population ~533k · 260 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 209 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in County Durham
260 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (209 of 260 here), 92.6% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (0.4% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 260 schools.
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Durham Johnston Comprehensive School | Secondary | 1,688 | Not graded | 04/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Park View School | Secondary | 1,617 | Not graded | 08/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Consett Academy | Secondary | 1,491 | Good | 10/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St John's Catholic School & Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,268 | Good· | 09/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham | Secondary | 1,260 | Good· | 08/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Lanchester | Secondary | 1,258 | Requires Improvement | 21/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Framwellgate School Durham | Secondary | 1,247 | Not graded | 05/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Academy at Shotton Hall | Secondary | 1,164 | Outstanding | 09/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Seaham High School | Secondary | 1,123 | Good | 03/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Woodham Academy | Secondary | 1,027 | Good· | 19/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Whitworth Park Academy | Secondary | 986 | Good | 05/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Sedgefield Community College | Secondary | 981 | Outstanding· | 11/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
North Durham Academy | Secondary | 976 | Good | 21/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Bede's Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form College | Secondary | 937 | Good· | 14/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hermitage Academy | Secondary | 932 | Good | 12/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
King James I Academy Bishop Auckland | Secondary | 926 | Good· | 17/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Wellfield School | Secondary | 914 | Not graded | — | OfstedWebsite |
Parkside Academy | Secondary | 881 | Good | 19/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Belmont Community School | Secondary | 847 | Good· | 20/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Easington Academy | Secondary | 788 | Good· | 13/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.