Nunthorpe Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland·TS7 0LA
Composite score
70.3
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#1,736
National rank
#87
In North East
#7
In Redcar and Cleveland
Top 12%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
74%
% achieving higher RWM
19%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
91%
32 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
76
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
43%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.36
00.511.52
1 per place
1.0020221.1320231.1420241.4720251.102026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Redcar and Cleveland does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Nunthorpe Primary Academy. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
256
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
9.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,213
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Nunthorpe Primary Academy at a glance

Located in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Nunthorpe Primary Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 256 pupils aged 3 to 11. 74% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 7.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 12% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 19% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Nunthorpe Primary Academy is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 32 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.4%. There are about 20.3 pupils per teacher. Nunthorpe Primary Academy does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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