Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy, Stockton-on-Tees

From the headteacher's welcome: "Whether you are a pupil, parent, prospective employee or visitor, we hope you get a sense of what it means to be part of our school community and our vision for the future. We recognise that parents and carers looking to choose a school for their child are, perhaps, making the most important decision a parent or carer can make."

In 2026, pupils at Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.7 in Stockton-on-Tees and 47 across England.

51% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 52% in Stockton-on-Tees and 47% in England.

That is up from 43.3 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.4: pupils made below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 34.3, against 49.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 15.6 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Combined Science and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 201 families put Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy as their first choice and 484 named it as one of their preferences, for 194 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 9 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy are The Grangefield Academy (0.4 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 46.8); Ian Ramsey Church of England Academy (0.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 49.1); Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth (1 mile, Good, Attainment 8 30.7); and North Shore Academy (1.6 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 44.9).

Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy's 2026 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy is one of 35 schools run by Bishop Hogarth Catholic Education Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.1 in 2024/25.

222 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy (as of September 2025): 75% would recommend the school, 81% say their child is happy there and 65% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that the school has high expectations for their child (85%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (65%).

Of the 208 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 87% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 73% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

9.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (78%) and Black (8%).

Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy has a resourced provision for autism: 10 places, 9 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Stockton Rail Station, about 1.1 miles away in a straight line.

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Our Lady & St Bedes School (entrance), 70 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 340 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Stockton-on-Tees (204), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy issued 336 suspensions, 32.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 6 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Our Lady & St. Bede Catholic Academy are Whitehouse Primary School (0.2 miles); St Mark's Church of England Primary School (0.4 miles); St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Stockton (0.6 miles); and Fairfield Primary School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.