Marchbank Free School
Special / other · Darlington · DL3 9BL
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 23 January 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
63 pupils · 97% of 65 capacity
- School type
- Free schools special
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 66.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- Website
- www.educationvillage.org.uk
- URN
- 139691
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
10 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)
51% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 24% moved to another state school · 25% 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
- 23 January 2024: Good
- 25 March 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 1
- 9 July 2019: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.