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Schools in the Middlesbrough local authority

Middlesbrough has 66 schools listed on OfferDay across 2 towns.

41 primary schools · 8 secondary schools · 3 sixth forms and colleges · 10 special and alternative provision schools · 2 independent schools · 2 other establishments

About schools in Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough lists 66 schools, most of them primary schools. Its eight secondary schools are where families compare options once a child finishes primary. Older students can carry on at three sixth forms and colleges.

Ofsted inspects every school listed here. Its newer reports judge a school across several areas rather than giving one overall grade, while older reports still carry the previous single grade, so read the framework and the date on each page before you set two schools side by side. Where results have been published you will also find key stage 2 scores for the primary schools and Attainment 8 for the secondary schools. An inspection or a results table captures a school at one past moment, so use this page to draw up a shortlist and then visit.

Key stage 2, 2024/25
63%
of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, across the 44 schools with published results
Key stage 4, 2024/25
41.4
average Attainment 8 score, across the 11 schools with published results

Top schools in Middlesbrough

Ranked by the latest published results; primary and secondary schools are measured differently and never compared with each other.

Primary

  1. 1 Lingfield Primary School 89%
  2. 2 St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 89%
  3. 3 Linthorpe Community Primary School 88%
  4. 4 Lift Caldicotes 85%
  5. 5 Chandlers Ridge Academy 82%
  6. 6 Beech Grove Primary School 81%
  7. 7 Brambles Primary Academy 80%
  8. 8 Whinney Banks Primary School 76%

Secondary

  1. 1 Acklam Grange School 48.5
  2. 2 Macmillan Academy 47.8
  3. 3 Outwood Academy Riverside 43.2
  4. 4 Outwood Academy Acklam 42.9
  5. 5 Trinity Catholic College 42.6
  6. 6 The King's Academy 37.9
  7. 7 Lift Unity City 34.2
  8. 8 Outwood Academy Ormesby 33.1

Schools by town

The count beside each town is the number of its schools under Middlesbrough.

Schools not listed under a town

These schools have no town recorded in the national register.

Common questions about schools in Middlesbrough

How many schools does Middlesbrough have?
OfferDay lists 66 schools in Middlesbrough, including 41 primary schools and ten special and alternative provision schools.
Who inspects schools in Middlesbrough?
Every school in Middlesbrough is inspected by Ofsted. Newer reports grade several areas of a school separately on a report card, while older reports carry a single overall grade, so check the framework and the date on each page before you compare two schools.
How are schools in Middlesbrough ranked?
OfferDay ranks an area's schools only where enough of them have published results to compare fairly, and Middlesbrough does not have enough to rank. Compare its schools on their Ofsted reports and, where results are published, the figures shown against each school on this page.
How many towns are in the Middlesbrough local authority?
OfferDay groups the Middlesbrough schools across two towns, listed in the schools-by-town section on this page. Any school with no town recorded in the national register is listed separately, grouped by phase, so every school in the local authority is reachable.

School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. Information on this page was last updated on 24 July 2026.