Monkseaton Middle School
Middle deemed secondary · Whitley Bay · NE25 8JW
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 8 December 2021
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
203 pupils · 53% of 384 capacity
- School type
- Foundation school
- Age range
- 9–13
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 38.9% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 27.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.4% of pupils
- URN
- 108637
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
61 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
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.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
86% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 6% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 8 December 2021: Good
- 23 February 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 31 January 2019: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 27 February 2018: Requires improvement
- 15 March 2016: Not taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.