Community special school

Park View School

Mixed · ages 11–16South Tyneside, North East · South Shields NE34 0QASchool website
Pupils on roll
59of 60 places
Free school meals
67.8%
Year 11 cohort 2025
11
Ofsted
Good, 5 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 12 pupils who finished Year 11 at Park View School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 42% to a further education college and 8% started an apprenticeship.

Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 8% of leavers started one, roughly twice the England figure of 3%.

Park View School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 10.2, 0% 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.

Park View School
South Tyneside
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasurePark View SchoolSouth TynesideEngland
Pupils in the cohort121,625607,348
Any sustained destination58%90%92%
Stayed in education50%82%86%
— school sixth form0%27%34%
— sixth form college0%0%13%
— further education college42%52%37%
— other education8%3%2%
Apprenticeship8%6%3%
Employment0%2%3%
No sustained destination8%8%6%
Destination unknown33%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasurePark View SchoolSouth TynesideEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)10.242.746.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%39%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%61%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%35%41%
EBacc average point score0.853.744.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort82%37%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils33.134.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils48.450.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language655%89%0%20%0%
Combined Science655%65%0%9%17%
English Literature545%86%21%
Mathematics545%88%22%
Food Preparation and Nutrition436%8%21%
Fine Art218%9%28%
Photography19%6%19%

Other secondary schools in South Tyneside

Boldon School

Community school · 1,043 pupils

70% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.1

Harton Academy

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,599 pupils

84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.6

Jarrow School

Foundation school · 844 pupils

78% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.6

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.