St Wilfrid's RC College
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
D50
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- South Shields, NE34 0QA
- Distance
- 0.7km away
Mortimer Community College
Reading Road, South Shields, NE33 4UG
Local ranking7th of 8 secondary schools in South Tyneside
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1156
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 14 January 2025. Figures last updated .
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 14 January 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 40.7 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 38.6% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 58.1% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 210
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 89.0%
- Continued in education
- 83.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 4.0%
- Employment
- 2.0%
- Not sustained
- 8.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1111
- Boys
- 595 (52%)
- Girls
- 544 (48%)
- Capacity
- 1156 (99% full)
- SEND
- 21.2%
- FSM Eligible
- 48.7%
- EAL
- 8.6%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.2%
- SEN Support
- 20.1%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 15.4:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 72.2
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,861/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 11.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 33.6% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 84.7%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 3.9%
- Asian Other: 2.4%
- Mixed Other: 2.2%
- White Other: 2.1%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.4%
- Other: 1.0%
- Asian Indian: 0.8%
84.7%
White British
3.9%
Asian Bangladeshi
2.4%
Asian Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Reading Road
South Shields, North East
Administrative
- URN
- 108727
- UKPRN
- 10016610
- Establishment No.
- 4006
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