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Bishopton PRU

Alternative provisionAges 7–16Academy

Billingham, TS23 3HB · Stockton-on-Tees local authority

Billingham’s School Grade C better than 32% of towns in England

How full
63 pupils
79% of its 80 places
Free school meals
68%
68 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Bishopton PRU

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 68% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement urgent improvement, safeguarding not met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TS23 3) sold for a median £149,000; Billingham’s is £145,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

67 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
29.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
77.6%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 28%Boys 72%
Its letter

No letter for Bishopton PRU

Alternative provision isn’t given a letter: pupils come for part of their schooling, so results don’t compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting January 2026. Special measures

SafeguardingNot met
AchievementUrgent improvement
Curriculum and teachingUrgent improvement
InclusionUrgent improvement
Attendance and behaviourUrgent improvement
Personal development and well-beingUrgent improvement
Leadership and governanceUrgent improvement

Before the report card: Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), May 2025. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), February 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Bishopton PRU

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in TS23 3, the school’s postcode sector

Billingham property prices →
£149,000
median sale, 461 sales in 36 months · Billingham £145,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025TS23 3Billingham
TS23 3Billingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£220K
Semi-detached
£139K
Terraced
£105K
Flat
£70K
TS23 3Billingham

Homes in TS23 3 sell for about the same as Billingham’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

13 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B−B−DCBDBCBA+BC−Bishopton PRU
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Billingham, TS23 3HB

Bishopton PRU: common questions

What is Bishopton PRU’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (January 2026) gave a report card: achievement urgent improvement, safeguarding not met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Bishopton PRU?

Homes in its postcode sector, TS23 3, sold for a median £149,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (461 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Billingham’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.