United Kingdom / Regions / Darlington
Darlington
North East, England · population ~107k · 42 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 38 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Darlington
42 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 (38 of 42 here), 94.8% 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 (2.4% 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 42 schools.
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Carmel College | Secondary | 1,365 | Not graded | 01/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Hummersknott Academy | Secondary | 1,230 | Good | 28/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Haughton Academy | Secondary | 890 | Good | 01/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Polam Hall School | Secondary | 841 | Good | 25/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Longfield Academy | Secondary | 721 | Not graded | 15/10/2024 | Ofsted |
Hurworth School | Secondary | 645 | Good | 21/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Rydal Academy | Primary | 621 | Good | 06/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Aidan's Church of England Academy | Secondary | 594 | Good | 11/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Wyvern Academy | Secondary | 503 | Good | 20/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
West Park Academy | Primary | 453 | Good· | 20/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Whinfield Primary School | Primary | 451 | Good· | 30/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Harrowgate Hill Primary School | Primary | 440 | Requires Improvement | 19/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Heathfield Primary School | Primary | 430 | Good | 19/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Northwood Primary School | Primary | 422 | Good· | 06/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St. George's Church of England Academy | Primary | 400 | Good | 15/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Reid Street Primary School | Primary | 386 | Good· | 07/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Beaumont Hill Academy | Special | 356 | Good· | 09/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Abbey Junior School | Primary | 352 | Good· | 21/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 350 | Good· | 21/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Bede's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 320 | Not graded | 03/12/2024 | 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.