Morpeth Chantry Middle School
Middle deemed secondary · Morpeth · NE61 1RQ
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 3 March 2026 · report published 6 May 2026
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525 pupils · 89% of 593 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 9–13
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 14.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.4% of pupils
- URN
- 137747
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
134 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)
94% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 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, 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.
Inspection history since 2015
- 3 March 2026: Expected standard
- 19 October 2021: Good
- 18 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 10 December 2018: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 28 November 2017: Requires improvement
- 10 May 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 17 November 2015: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.