Boldon School
Community school · 1,043 pupils
70% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.1
Community special school
Bamburgh School
- Pupils on roll
- 223
- Free school meals
- 56.1%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 26
- Ofsted
- School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next, 24 September 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Margaret Sutton School (URN 108739, until 1 September 2012).
What the data says
Bamburgh School has no sixth form. Of the 27 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 44% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Bamburgh School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 9.8, 4% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in South Tyneside and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Bamburgh School | South Tyneside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 27 | 1,625 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 96% | 90% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 96% | 82% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 27% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| — further education college | 44% | 52% | 37% |
| — other education | 52% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 6% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 4% | 8% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Bamburgh School | South Tyneside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 9.8 | 42.7 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 4% | 39% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 4% | 61% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 35% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.72 | 3.74 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 58% | 37% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 9.7 | 33.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 9.8 | 48.4 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 7% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 16 | 62% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 38% |
| English Language | 14 | 54% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 14% |
| History | 9 | 35% | 41% | 0% | 26% | 11% |
| Art and Design | 8 | 31% | 7% | 13% | 24% | 50% |
| English Literature | 5 | 19% | 86% | — | 21% | — |
| Chemistry | 3 | 12% | 23% | — | 47% | — |
| Biology | 3 | 12% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
| Physics | 3 | 12% | 23% | — | 46% | — |
| Combined Science | 1 | 4% | 65% | — | 9% | — |
Other secondary schools in South Tyneside
Harton Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,599 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.6
Hebburn Comprehensive School
Community school · 857 pupils
75% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.2
Jarrow School
Foundation school · 844 pupils
78% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.6
Mortimer Community College
Community school · 1,139 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.9
St Joseph's Catholic Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,377 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.5
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.