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Best secondary schools in North Tyneside

10 of 16 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all North Tyneside schools · primary schools

Ranked on Progress 8, 2023/24 — the most recent year each school has published. Official data, not our opinion — but the ranking is only as good as the measure, and a single number never describes a school. We hold real catchment boundaries for 4 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 Marden High School North Shields 0.41 Good oversubscribed 1.31 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
2 Whitley Bay High School Whitley Bay 0.31 Outstanding improving oversubscribed 3.6 first prefs per place, 2018/19 approximate
3 St Thomas More Catholic High School North Shields hidden gem 0.21 Good about even 0.95 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
4 Norham High School North Shields 0.2 Good oversubscribed 1.78 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
5 George Stephenson High School Newcastle-upon-Tyne hidden gem -0.34 Good undersubscribed 0.77 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
6 Longbenton High School Newcastle-upon-Tyne hidden gem -0.43 Good improving about even 0.91 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
7 Burnside College Wallsend -0.46 Good about even 1.06 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
8 Monkseaton High School Whitley Bay -0.46 Not judged undersubscribed 0.48 first prefs per place, 2018/19 mapped
9 North Gosforth Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne -0.55 Not judged about even 0.91 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
10 Churchill Community College Wallsend -0.86 Inadequate undersubscribed 0.7 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate

Also in North Tyneside

6 further secondary schools with no published Progress 8 for the latest year — usually too small a cohort to report, newly opened, or a special school. Listed because leaving them out would make this a misleading picture of North Tyneside, not a fairer one.

Applying in North Tyneside

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