Admission to Secondary School (2026)
Section 2 - Admission statistics
In this section you will find statistics for the academic years 2024 and 2025. The information includes the:
- schools planned admission number (PAN)
- number of applications received
- number of places offered
- number of offers made within each category according to the school's admission policy
- number of appeals heard for oversubscribed schools and the number of appeals that were successful
The information also highlights which schools were oversubscribed for 2024 and 2025.
We receive applications each year for admission to Gateshead schools from parents who have also applied to Emmanuel College and to other independent/ private schools outside Gateshead. However, some parents subsequently decide to withdraw their applications to Gateshead schools following an offer and acceptance of a place at one of these schools and this impacts on the number of parents who first apply to secondary schools in Gateshead and other local authorities.
Community secondary school admissions for September 2024 and 2025 - admission criteria breakdown
| School | Year | PAN | 1st Preference Applications | 2nd Preference Applications | 3rd Preference Applications | Number of Places Offered on Allocation Date | Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | Category 5 | Category 6 | EHCP | Last Distance Offered (measured in metres) | Appeals Heard | Number of Successful Appeals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace College | 2025 | 210 | 195 | 216 | 169 | 220 | 3 | 0 | 144 | 20 | 0 | 50 | 3 | 3208.48 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024 | 210 | 170 | 196 | 137 | 210 | 3 | 152 | 21 | 0 | 31 | n/a | 3 | 2828.89 | 2 | 0 | |
| Heworth Grange | 2025 | 210 | 120 | 68 | 73 | 209 | 2 | 170 | 6 | 0 | 22 | n/a | 9 | All Offered | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 210 | 111 | 78 | 69 | 219 | 6 | 171 | 5 | 0 | 29 | n/a | 8 | All Offered | 0 | 0 | |
| Kingsmeadow | 2025 | 180 | 128 | 118 | 85 | 180 | 2 | 100 | 18 | 0 | 56 | n/a | 4 | 4226.01 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 180 | 115 | 115 | 73 | 176 | 2 | 119 | 5 | 0 | 46 | n/a | 4 | All Offered | 0 | 0 | |
| Lord Lawson | 2025 | 240 | 269 | 134 | 87 | 270 | 4 | 181 | 21 | 0 | 58 | n/a | 6 | 4587.05 | 10 | 0 |
| 2024 | 240 | 223 | 98 | 78 | 245 | 6 | 145 | 28 | 0 | 59 | n/a | 7 | 5170.02 | 11 | 3 | |
| Thorp Academy | 2025 | 330 | 239 | 92 | 41 | 275 | 3 | 253 | 8 | 0 | 5 | n/a | 6 | All Offered | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 270 | 261 | 98 | 50 | 292 | 9 | 259 | 3 | 0 | 11 | n/a | 10 | All Offered | 0 | 0 | |
| Whickham | 2025 | 266 | 337 | 255 | 135 | 288 | 3 | 162 | 47 | 0 | 3 | 65 | 8 | 4809 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 266 | 367 | 208 | 127 | 288 | 9 | 146 | 58 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 12 | 3587.22 | 33 | 4 | |
| XP Gateshead | 2025 | 50 | 132 | 101 | 90 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | N/a | 8 | 0 |
| 2024 | 50 | 141 | 145 | 98 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 2 | N/a | 16 | 1 |
Lord Lawson, Grace College, Whickham and XP Gateshead we all oversubscribed for September 2024 and/or 2025.
Admissions to voluntary aided secondary schools for September 2024 and 2025 - admission criteria breakdown
| Year | PAN | Preference | Places Offered | Admission Policy Criteria | EHCP | Appeals | Successful | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||||
| 2025 | 225 | 404 | 305 | 236 | 260 | 1 | 106 | 45 | 4 | 7 | 71 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 19 | 3 | |
| Cardinal Hume Catholic School | 2024 | 225 | 340 | 247 | 120 | 260 | 3 | 120 | 31 | 5 | 10 | 60 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 23 | 3 |
| Year | PAN | Preference | Places Offered | Admission Policy Criteria | EHCP | Appeals | Successful | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||||
| St Thomas More Catholic School | 2025 | 235 | 252 | 210 | 117 | 250 | 1 | 123 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 40 | 0 | 26 | 9 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 235 | 242 | 194 | 85 | 250 | 1 | 128 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 57 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |
Both Cardinal Hume Catholic School and St Thomas More Catholic School were oversubscribed for September 2024 and September 2025.