Excelsior Academy
All-through · Newcastle-upon-Tyne · NE15 6AF
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 May 2024
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1,339 pupils · 78% of 1,710 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 3–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 74.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 51.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 23.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.5% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 135423
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.71 first-choice applications per place240 places offered · 171 first-choice applications · usually has places
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.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2025
1.00 first-choice applications per place10 places offered · 10 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
22 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
205 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.
A-level results (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)
85% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 8% 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, academy 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
suppressed (small cohort)
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 8 May 2025: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 8 May 2024: Requires improvement
- 2 December 2021: Leaders and those responsible for governance are taking effective action in order for the school to become a good school
- 3 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 10 March 2020: Requires improvement
- 28 November 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.