English Martyrs Catholic School and Sixth Form College
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
D45
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Hartlepool, TS25 4HA
- Distance
- 1.6km away
High Tunstall College of Science
Elwick Road, West Park, Hartlepool, TS26 0LQ
Local ranking3rd of 5 secondary schools in Hartlepool
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1394
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 28 January 2025. Figures last updated .
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 28 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
- 39.5 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 29.4% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 49.6% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 272
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 93.0%
- Continued in education
- 88.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 1.0%
- Employment
- 3.0%
- Not sustained
- 6.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1396
- Boys
- 728 (52%)
- Girls
- 671 (48%)
- Capacity
- 1394 (100% full)
- SEND
- 26.2%
- FSM Eligible
- 29.8%
- EAL
- 4.6%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 7.0%
- SEN Support
- 19.3%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 14.7:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 95.0
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,020/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
- 7.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 16.8% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 90.7%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 1.6%
- Asian Other: 1.4%
- White Other: 1.1%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.1%
- Black African: 0.8%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.7%
- Other: 0.7%
90.7%
White British
1.6%
Asian Bangladeshi
1.4%
Asian Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Elwick Road
Hartlepool, North East
Administrative
- URN
- 111748
- UKPRN
- 10003064
- Establishment No.
- 4133
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