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Mortimer Community College

South Shields, NE33 4UG · South Tyneside · secondary school

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Mixed Secondary
2.3/10 Below average

7th of 8 secondary schools in South Tyneside we can score. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.

Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still — 4.1/10 against 444 of them, against 2.3/10 nationally. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.

How this is worked out
MeasurePercentileWeightAdds
Grade 5+ English & maths 2024/25 35.4 · 29 46% 1.33
Progress 8 2023/24 -0.53 · 15 38% 0.56
Attainment 8 2024/25 41.9 · 29 15% 0.45

Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.

Get to know the school

How it's doing. In 2024/25, 35.4% of pupils achieved Grade 5 or above in English and maths. Attainment 8 was 41.9, compared to the national median of 44.6. Progress 8 was -0.53 in 2023/24, indicating pupils did worse than those nationally who started from the same place. Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still (4.1 out of 10 against similar schools, 2.3 out of 10 against all schools).

Getting in. The school has 1139 pupils in a capacity of 1156, leaving 17 spare places. The school is close to full, so places are likely to be competitive.

Worth asking on a visit. How does the school support pupils who fall below the national median in Attainment 8? What specific steps are taken to address the negative Progress 8 score? How does the school manage admissions when it is near capacity?

Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.

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