Trinity Catholic College

Academy converter·Secondary school Middlesbrough·TS4 3JW
Composite score
53.2
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#2,133
National rank
#96
In North East
#5
In Middlesbrough
Top 67%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
42.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
40%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
57%
% EBacc grade 5+
10%
EBacc average points score
3.54

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
95%
210 first choices, 235 places
First choices per place
0.89
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
485
any preference, for 235 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8220220.7720230.6320240.7620250.892026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Trinity Catholic College yet. Middlesbrough does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
11–19
Pupils on roll
1,303
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
45.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
16.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.1%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
12.3%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
38.3%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.6
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,670
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
85%
227 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
79%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Trinity Catholic College

Trinity Catholic College is a secondary school in Middlesbrough, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 1,303 pupils aged 11 to 19 attend the school. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 42.6, below the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 4.5 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

40% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 57% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 95% of the families who made Trinity Catholic College their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 85% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 12.3%. There are about 17.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 45% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Trinity Catholic College 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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