Belmont Community School
Secondary · Durham · DH1 2AG
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 20 March 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
887 pupils · 99% of 900 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 34.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 5.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.1% of pupils
- URN
- 114308
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.15 first-choice applications per place185 places offered · 212 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
142 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
93% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school · 4% 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.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 19 March 2024: School remains Good
- 12 February 2019: Good
- 9 October 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 18 October 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Belmont CofE (Controlled) Primary School
- St Thomas More Primary School, Belmont
- Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School
- St Hild's College Church of England Primary School, Durham
- Durham Gilesgate Primary School
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate
- Sherburn Primary School
- Laurel Avenue Community Primary School