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Best secondary schools in Northumberland

14 of 29 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all Northumberland 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 23 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 Ashington Academy Ashington 0.46 Good about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
2 Queen Elizabeth High School Hexham 0.27 Good about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2018/19 mapped
3 Ponteland High School Ponteland 0.13 Good oversubscribed 1.16 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
4 The King Edward VI School Morpeth 0.13 Not judged about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2018/19 mapped
5 Prudhoe Community High School Prudhoe 0.08 Good — mapped
6 Cramlington Learning Village Cramlington -0.15 Good about even 1.01 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
7 St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy Bedlington hidden gem -0.17 Good improving about even 0.96 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
8 The Blyth Academy Blyth hidden gem -0.18 Good improving undersubscribed 0.79 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
9 Seaton Valley High School Seaton Delaval hidden gem -0.23 Good about even 0.95 first prefs per place, 2018/19 mapped
10 Bedlington Academy Bedlington -0.26 Good about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
11 James Calvert Spence College Morpeth -0.36 Good improving about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
12 Haydon Bridge High School Hexham -0.58 Requires improvement about even 0.97 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
13 Berwick Academy Berwick-upon-Tweed -0.85 Requires improvement about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2018/19 mapped
14 NCEA Duke's Secondary School Ashington -1.05 Requires improvement about even 1.01 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped

Also in Northumberland

15 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 Northumberland, not a fairer one.

Applying in Northumberland

Knowing which school is best is only half of it — these are the deadlines that decide whether you can apply at all.

Rankings compare published results. They do not tell you which school your child will get into — that depends on where you live, sibling and faith priority, and how many people apply this year. Ask below, or check the Northumberland admission criteria.

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