United Kingdom / Regions / Northumberland
Northumberland
North East, England · population ~324k · 163 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 143 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Northumberland
163 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 (143 of 163 here), 88.9% 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.
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 163 schools.
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Cramlington Learning Village | Secondary | 2,021 | Good· | 31/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bede Academy | Secondary | 2,012 | Good | 30/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ponteland High School | Secondary | 1,543 | Good | 23/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Duchess's Community High School | Secondary | 1,341 | Requires Improvement | 19/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
The King Edward VI School | Secondary | 1,340 | Not graded | 05/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen Elizabeth High School | Secondary | 1,304 | Good | 30/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy | Secondary | 1,056 | Good | 17/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
NCEA Duke's Secondary School | Secondary | 1,045 | Requires Improvement | 06/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ashington Academy | Secondary | 966 | Good | 23/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bedlington Academy | Secondary | 828 | Good | 13/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Blyth Academy | Secondary | 772 | Good | 09/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Prudhoe Community High School | Secondary | 736 | Good· | 06/12/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
James Calvert Spence College | Secondary | 636 | Good | 15/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Seaton Valley High School | Secondary | 627 | Not graded | 11/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Hexham Middle School | Secondary | 606 | Good· | 18/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Berwick Academy | Secondary | 586 | Requires Improvement | 13/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Morpeth Chantry Middle School | Secondary | 556 | Good | 19/10/2021 | Ofsted |
Morpeth Newminster Middle School | Secondary | 555 | Good | 12/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Horton Grange Primary School | Primary | 547 | Outstanding | 20/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Burnside Primary School | Primary | 474 | Good· | 15/02/2023 | 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.