Jesmond Park Academy

About Jesmond Park Academy

Jesmond Park Academy’s most recent Ofsted inspection, in 2022, rated the school Good across every category, including overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and sixth-form provision. That marks a significant turnaround from its previous graded inspection in 2016, when it was judged Inadequate overall. The strongest evidence of academic progress lies in the school’s Progress 8 score of 0.29, which is classified as Above average nationally. This means that, on average, pupils at Jesmond Park achieve nearly a third of a grade more per subject across eight GCSEs than students with similar starting points nationally. Within the local authority of Newcastle upon Tyne, that score places the school 4th out of 11 secondary schools, putting it comfortably in the top half of the area. The local authority average Progress 8 score is -0.4, so Jesmond Park’s positive score represents a substantial outperformance relative to its peers in the region.

At KS4, the school’s Attainment 8 score sits at 50.6, and 51.5 per cent of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in English and maths, with 74.9 per cent reaching a grade 4 or above. The EBacc entry rate is 62.2 per cent, and 42.7 per cent of pupils entered for the EBacc achieved a grade 4 or above across the component subjects. The school’s strongest Progress 8 sub-scores are in maths (0.46) and the EBacc bucket (0.39), suggesting particular strength in the core academic subjects and languages or humanities. At KS5, the sixth form has 128 students and a value-added score of -0.01, which is banded as Average. The average points per entry is 34.96, equivalent to a C+ grade, and 22.2 per cent of entries achieved grades AAB or higher. The best three A-levels average out at a C+ grade, with 34.88 points per student.

Jesmond Park Academy is a large, mixed, non-faith secondary with a sixth form, serving 2,083 pupils against a capacity of 2,050. It is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, there were 972 applications for 355 places, with 290 first-preference offers made from 355 first-preference applications, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.74. The school has a high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 36.5 per cent. Facilities include science labs, a sixth form centre, sports hall, playing fields, gymnasium, swimming pool, astro turf, ICT suite, art studios, music rooms, and a chapel. SEND provisions cover a wide range of needs, including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional mental health, speech and language communication, hearing and visual impairment, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. Extracurricular offerings include Duke of Edinburgh, Model UN, Young Enterprise, debate, choir, drama, and science, gardening, art, and book clubs. This is a school that suits families looking for a large, inclusive, academically improving comprehensive with strong maths outcomes and a sixth form that performs around the national average.

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