Dryden School
Special / other · Gateshead · NE9 5UR
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Standards maintained”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 15 January 2025
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
77 pupils
- School type
- Community special school
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 57.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 14.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 1.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 98.6% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- http://drydenschool.co.uk/
- URN
- 131200
GCSE results (2024/2025)
11 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
no pupils entered
no pupils entered
no pupils entered
no pupils entered
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)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
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
- 14 January 2025: Standards maintained
- 19 November 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.