Whitecliffe Academy
Carlin How, TS13 4AD · Redcar and Cleveland local authority
Carlin How’s School Grade A− better than 80% of towns in England
What stands out about Whitecliffe Academy
- Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 63% of England’s primary schools
- 67% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5 points above England’s schools
- Room to spare: 91 pupils for 140 places
- 54% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Inspected, March 2025 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (6 of 6)
- Homes in its postcode sector (TS13 4) sold for a median £110,000; Carlin How’s is £70,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 67%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 63% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Redcar and Cleveland avg 66%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 103, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Whitecliffe Academy?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Northern Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Redcar and Cleveland council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
100% got their first choice
Carlin How and Redcar and Cleveland, side by side
2023–2025All 44 graded primaries in Redcar and Cleveland. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Carlin How’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Badger Hill Academy | A+ | 21% | 91% |
| Newcomen Primary School | A+ | 20% | 89% |
| Wilton Primary Academy | A+ | 33% | 84% |
| Bankfields Primary School | A | 54% | 82% |
| Saint Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy | A | 15% | 80% |
| Wheatlands Primary School | A | 9% | 79% |
| Westgarth Primary School | A | 11% | 78% |
| Whale Hill Primary School | A | 50% | 78% |
| Lockwood Primary School | A | 14% | 77% |
| Green Gates Primary School | A | 66% | 77% |
| Saltburn Primary School | A | 25% | 77% |
| Nunthorpe Primary Academy | A | 14% | 76% |
| Handale Primary School | A | 51% | 76% |
| Lingdale Primary School | A | 79% | 76% |
| St Bede's Catholic Primary School | A− | 10% | 74% |
| Normanby Primary School | B+ | 21% | 70% |
| Chaloner Primary School | B+ | 47% | 70% |
| Coatham Church of England Primary School | B+ | 26% | 69% |
| Teesville Academy | B+ | 32% | 69% |
| St Benedict's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 32% | 68% |
| Whitecliffe Academy | B | 54% | 67% |
| Ings Farm Primary School | B | 13% | 67% |
| Skelton Primary School | B | 32% | 66% |
| Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School | B | 37% | 66% |
| Zetland Primary School | B | 34% | 66% |
| Galley Hill Primary School | B | 5% | 65% |
| Errington Primary School | B− | 25% | 63% |
| Belmont Primary School | B− | 12% | 62% |
| Hummersea Primary School | B− | 45% | 61% |
| Highcliffe Primary School | B− | 34% | 61% |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | C+ | 44% | 60% |
| Saint Paulinus Catholic Primary School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy | C+ | 8% | 59% |
| Grangetown Primary School | C+ | 75% | 59% |
| Caedmon Primary School | C+ | 74% | 58% |
| Riverdale Primary School | C | 34% | 56% |
| John Emmerson Batty Primary School | C | 29% | 54% |
| Ormesby Primary School | C− | 31% | 52% |
| St Margaret Clitherows RC Primary School | C− | 38% | 51% |
| Overfields Primary School | C− | 55% | 51% |
| Dormanstown Primary Academy | D | 66% | 47% |
| New Marske Primary School | D | 25% | 46% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | D | 55% | 41% |
| Lakes Primary School | D | 44% | 41% |
| South Bank Community Primary School | D− | 57% | 27% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 202597 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.
Girls and boys
Whitecliffe Academy’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, March 2025.
Living near Whitecliffe Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in TS13 4, the school’s postcode sector
Carlin How property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in TS13 4 sell for well over Carlin How’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
4 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Carlin How, TS13 4AD
Whitecliffe Academy: common questions
Is Whitecliffe Academy a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 63% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 67% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, March 2025.
How hard is it to get into Whitecliffe Academy?
For September 2026, 6 families put Whitecliffe Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 6 places were offered in all.
What is Whitecliffe Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (March 2025).
How much do houses cost near Whitecliffe Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, TS13 4, sold for a median £110,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (255 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; Carlin How’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.
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