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NCEA Castle School

Academy Road, Ashington, NE63 9FZ

NORTHUMBERLAND CHURCH OF ENGLAND ACADEMY TRUST is the academy trust. Admissions rules still sit with the school and your local council.

Good

At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedGood
Attendance90.6%
AttainmentProgress 8: -1.05
AdmissionsNot published from capacity data
Pupils980

Ofsted inspection

Latest outcome

Good

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

View on Ofsted

Some published figures may come from the predecessor school on this site: NCEA Duke's Secondary School (URN 135886).

School figures

Coloured bars compare this school with the average for other schools in NE63. Where we have them, council (Northumberland) 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
980
Free school meals
50.2%
13% above district average (37.2%)

Also: Northumberland 53.8% · England 49.2%

SEN
100%
66.5% above district average (33.5%)

Also: Northumberland 100% · England 99.9%

EAL
3.8%
0.6% below district average (4.4%)
Attendance
90.6%
3.4% below district average (94%)

Also: Northumberland 85% · England 87.2%

Persistent absence
31.6%
Attainment
Progress 8: -1.05

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the NE63 average; the darker bar is this school.

Trends over time

Attendance

Autumn and spring term attendance from DfE pupil absence data (where published for this URN).

  • 2020/2170.6%
  • 2021/2286.2%
  • 2022/2385.7%
  • 2023/2489.1%
  • 2024/2591.8%

KS2 attainment

Share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (all pupils).

  • 2022/230%
  • 2024/250%

Admissions

Demand signal
Not published from capacity data
Published capacity (GIAS)
1150
Pupils on roll
980

Indicative signal from published roll versus GIAS capacity. Not applications versus offers, and not a guarantee of a place.

Published admission number (PAN) and applications versus offers are not in our national datasets yet. Use your council booklet.

Check your council admissions booklet via the Northumberland page.

SEN support

SEN %
100%
On-site provision
Resourced provision · ASD, SLD, PMLD
Need types
ASDSLDPMLD

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

Sources and freshness

  • School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
  • Pipeline last checked: Sept 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.
  • School photos are not shown yet. Schools will be able to add one later.
  • Methodology · Data updates