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High Tunstall College of Science

Elwick Road, West Park, Hartlepool, TS26 0LQ

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OfstedNo overall grade

At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedNo overall grade
Attendance (2024/25)92.9%
Attainment (2024/25)Attainment 8: 44.3
Roll vs capacityClose to published capacity
Pupils1399

Ofsted inspection

Latest outcome

No overall grade

New inspection format: no single overall grade.

Latest visit (Jan 2025): no overall grade. Quality of education and leadership and management require improvement; behaviour and attitudes and personal development good. See the full Ofsted report.

Report published 25 Mar 2025.

Inspection history

  • Latest ungradedSchool remains Good
  • Previous gradedRequires improvement

This page shows previous graded and latest ungraded outcomes when Ofsted publishes them in the national file. Full history stays on the Ofsted report.

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School figures

Coloured bars compare this school with the average for other schools in TS26. Where we have them, council (Hartlepool) and England figures appear under FSM, SEN and attendance. FSM, SEN and EAL are context, not quality scores. For attendance, higher is usually better.

Pupils on roll
1399
Free school meals
29.7%
1.7% below district average (31.4%)

Also: Hartlepool 41.9% · England 25.8%

SEN
26.2%
1.3% below district average (27.5%)

Also: Hartlepool 19.7% · England 16.5%

EAL
4.6%
7.1% below district average (11.7%)
Attendance
92.9% Autumn and spring 2024/25
1.3% below district average (94.2%)

Also: Hartlepool 90.7% · England 91.9%

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the TS26 average; the darker bar is this school.

Compared with England

Persistent absence is 2024/25. Headline GCSE measures are 2024/25. Progress 8 is from 2023/24, the latest year published for this school. There is no Progress 8 for 2024/25 or 2025/26, because those pupils did not sit Key Stage 2 tests during the pandemic. England is the state-funded average from the same tables. Progress 8 of 0 is typical.

Persistent absence2024/25

16.4%

5.5% below England (21.9%)

Progress 82023/24

-0.32

0.32 below England (0.00)

Attainment 82024/25

44.3

1.8 below England (46.1)

Grade 5+ English & maths2024/25

48.2%

2.8% above England (45.4%)

Grade 4+ English & maths2024/25

63.1%

1.7% below England (64.8%)

Entered for EBacc2024/25

20.1%

20.4% below England (40.5%)

EBacc average point score2024/25

3.67

0.4 below England (4.09)

Trends

Attendance

Autumn and spring 2024/25 from DfE pupil absence data (where published for this URN). The headline above uses the same period.

  • 94.4%
    2020/21
  • 91.4%
    2021/22
  • 92.3%
    2022/23
  • 92.7%
    2023/24
  • 92.9%
    2024/25

Admissions

Applications and offers (September 2026 entry)

For September 2026 entry, 339 families put this school first. 263 of them were offered a place here.

Named as first preference
339
First-preference offers
263
First preferences offered a place
77.6%
Total offers
263
Named on any preference
730

This is historic demand from one admissions round. It is not a guarantee of a place, and it does not show a catchment area. Admission rules and priorities differ by school.

SourceDfE applications and offers, September 2026 entryPublished 18th of June 2026.

How full the building is

Roll versus published capacity
Close to published capacity
Published capacity (GIAS)
1394
Pupils on roll
1399

Pupils on roll compared with the capacity published in GIAS. This is about building size, not applications or offers, and it is not a guarantee of a place.

Applications and offers come from DfE. Last distance offered and catchment areas are not published nationally. Your council admissions booklet has those details.

Check your council admissions booklet via the Hartlepool page.

SEN support

SEN %
26.2%
On-site provision
Resourced provision · OTH, ASD, PD, MLD

A higher SEN percentage can mean experience with support needs, or more demand on staff. Ask the SENCO what is available day to day.

Schools near High Tunstall College of Science

Distances are in a straight line from this school. They are not catchment areas.

Other nearby schools

All schools in TS26 · Schools in Hartlepool

Sources and freshness

  • School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
  • Pipeline last checked: Oct 2026.
  • Council and England attendance / FSM tables: 2024/25.
  • School figures from DfE / GIAS / Ofsted where published. District averages use other schools in this postcode district. Council and England figures use DfE local authority and national tables for the matching phase.
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