Academy converter · Secondary
Middlesbrough · TS3 0RH · Middlesbrough
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
0.9 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 133768
Lift Unity City
Academy sponsor led · Middlesbrough · TS3 8RE
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–16
Pupils
1,033
Local authority
Middlesbrough
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–16, in Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, 1,033 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 72%. SEN provision includes: MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 133768
Location
- Address
- Ormesby Road
- Postcode
- TS3 8RE
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- Local authority
- Middlesbrough
- District
- Middlesbrough
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,033
- Boys / girls
- 545 / 488
- School capacity
- 1,050
- Capacity fill
- 1,033 / 1,050 (98%)
- Free school meals
- 72%
- FSM pupils
- 744
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: LIFT SCHOOLS
- Academy trust
- LIFT SCHOOLS
- Sponsor
- Lift Schools
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Resourced provision
- Resourced provision
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Jill Gray
- Telephone
- 01642326262
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Needs attention
Inspection date
2026-04-21
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 31.8
- Progress 8
- -0.9
- English & maths grade 5+
- 18%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 38%
- EBacc entry
- 22%
- EBacc APS
- 2.5