Northern Counties School
Special / other · Newcastle-upon-Tyne · NE2 3BB
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 27 February 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
89 pupils · 74% of 120 capacity
- School type
- Non-maintained special school
- Age range
- 3–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 42.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 4.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- ncs.percyhedley.org.uk
- URN
- 108551
GCSE results (2024/2025)
9 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 27 February 2024: Good
- 6 December 2023: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 13 March 2023: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 23 November 2022: School is not taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 10 May 2022: Inadequate
- 28 March 2017: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.