St Michael's Catholic Academy, Billingham

From the headteacher's welcome: "As a Catholic School we are rooted in our Christian values and see these values as the cornerstone of both our academic and pastoral mission."

On phones, the school says: "Pupils will still be able to bring mobile phones to the academy provided they are kept in bags or zipped up in their blazer pocket, on silent or switched off."

In 2026, pupils at St Michael's Catholic Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.5, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.7 in Stockton-on-Tees and 47 across England.

43% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 52% in Stockton-on-Tees and 47% in England.

That is up from 41.9 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.23: 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 36, against 50.2 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 14.2 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 22 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Combined Science and History.

For September 2026 entry, 175 families put St Michael's Catholic Academy as their first choice and 326 named it as one of their preferences, for 170 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 5 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to St Michael's Catholic Academy are Northfield School and Sports College (1.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 44.8); North Shore Academy (3 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 44.9); Outwood Academy Riverside (3.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 40.3); and Manor Community Academy (3.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 44.3).

St Michael's Catholic Academy's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

St Michael's 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.

Of the 193 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 86% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 79% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 4% into work.

2.5% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Billingham Rail Station, about 1060 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Michael's Catholic Academy (c), 140 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood St Michael's Catholic Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, St Michael's Catholic Academy issued 360 suspensions, 38.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 7 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to St Michael's Catholic Academy are St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (0.2 miles), Oakdene Primary Academy (0.4 miles), Bewley Primary School (0.4 miles) and Roseberry Primary School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.