State-fundedFree schools · Newcastle upon Tyne · NE13 9FR
Secondary (no sixth form) · ages 9–16
Great Park Academy is a state-funded school in Newcastle upon Tyne, teaching pupils aged 9 to 16.
No Progress 8 or Attainment 8 figures are published for this school. That usually means it is newly opened, has a cohort too small for figures to be published without identifying pupils, or is a special school for which the measures are not calculated.
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 3.7%100th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 3.3%100th percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is below the norm.
Good
A legacy overall effectiveness grade, from an inspection before Ofsted retired the single headline grade in 2025.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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