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Hemlington Hall Academy

PrimaryAges 3–11Academy

Middlesbrough, TS8 9SJ · Middlesbrough local authority

Middlesbrough’s School Grade C+ better than 41% of towns in England

Its letter
39%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
29/35
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
272 pupils
71% of its 385 places
Free school meals
45%
45 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Hemlington Hall Academy

  • Its own letter, C+: Key Stage 2 results better than 39% of England’s primary schools
  • Room to spare: 272 pupils for 385 places
  • 45% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 83% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (29 of 35)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TS8 9) sold for a median £190,000; Middlesbrough’s is £155,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 59%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 39% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Middlesbrough avg 63%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Hemlington Hall 59%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading69%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)69%
England’s schools 73%
Maths63%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling63%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 15 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
53%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
60%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three17%
England’s schools 8% · Middlesbrough 7% · 2025

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Hemlington Hall Academy?

83% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

35
families put it first for September 2026
29
places offered
83%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2024 (4), 2025 (7), 2026 (6). 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. Lingfield Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Middlesbrough council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Middlesbrough, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.53 per place
65% got their first choice
1.30 per place
77% got their first choice
Hemlington Hall
1.21 per place
83% got their first choice
1.14 per place
85% got their first choice
1.10 per place
91% got their first choice
1.10 per place
91% got their first choice
1.07 per place
94% got their first choice
1.05 per place
93% got their first choice
1.02 per place
97% got their first choice
1.00 per place
99% got their first choice

Middlesbrough and Middlesbrough, side by side

2023–2025

All 41 graded primaries in Middlesbrough. 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. Middlesbrough’s schools are coloured by their letter.

30%41%52%63%74%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Hemlington Hall
ABCDElsewhere in MiddlesbroughHemlington Hall
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Lingfield Primary SchoolA+15%85%
Beech Grove Primary SchoolA74%81%
St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolA17%81%
Chandlers Ridge AcademyA10%81%
Linthorpe Community Primary SchoolA50%80%
Captain Cook Primary SchoolA13%79%
Lift CaldicotesA75%78%
Brambles Primary AcademyA70%77%
Kader AcademyA19%76%
The Avenue Primary SchoolA−8%75%
Rose Wood AcademyB+26%70%
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary SchoolB+11%70%
Archibald Primary SchoolB+63%70%
Thorntree AcademyB+72%70%
Whinney Banks Primary SchoolB+46%69%
Marton Manor Primary SchoolB+17%69%
Green Lane Primary AcademyB+30%68%
Newham Bridge Primary SchoolB51%67%
Abingdon Primary SchoolB54%65%
St Clare's RC Primary SchoolB−4%64%
St Alphonsus' Catholic Primary SchoolB−30%63%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolB−34%63%
Lift North OrmesbyB−52%61%
Acklam Whin Primary SchoolB−9%61%
St Edward's Catholic Primary SchoolC+12%59%
Hemlington Hall AcademyC+45%59%
Easterside AcademyC51%56%
Sacred Heart Primary SchoolC44%56%
Pennyman Primary AcademyC70%55%
Pallister Park Primary SchoolC70%54%
Breckon Hill Primary SchoolC56%54%
Viewley Hill AcademyC−58%53%
Newport Primary SchoolC−58%52%
Park End Primary SchoolC−71%50%
St Gerard's RC Primary SchoolC−30%50%
St Thomas More RC Primary SchoolD34%45%
Ayresome Primary SchoolD59%45%
Corpus Christi RC Primary SchoolD50%43%
St Pius X Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary AcademyD45%41%
Berwick Hills Primary SchoolD−77%38%
Sunnyside AcademyD−41%34%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

281 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
19.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
8.9%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
2.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
47.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 43%Boys 57%
Its letter

Hemlington Hall Academy’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C+Better than 39% of 15,230 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

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

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsStrong standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, October 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Hemlington Hall Academy

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

Home prices in TS8 9, the school’s postcode sector

Middlesbrough property prices →
£190,000
median sale, 707 sales in 36 months · Middlesbrough £155,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025TS8 9Middlesbrough
TS8 9Middlesbrough

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£245K
Semi-detached
£170K
Terraced
£150K
Flat
£70K
TS8 9Middlesbrough

Homes in TS8 9 sell for well over Middlesbrough’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

10 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+CD−B+C−AB−C−B+B−C+Hemlington Hall Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Middlesbrough, TS8 9SJ

Hemlington Hall Academy: common questions

Is Hemlington Hall Academy a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 39% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C+), with 59% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in April 2026.

How hard is it to get into Hemlington Hall Academy?

For September 2026, 35 families put Hemlington Hall Academy first and 29 of them were offered a place; 29 places were offered in all.

What is Hemlington Hall Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Hemlington Hall Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, TS8 9, sold for a median £190,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (707 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; Middlesbrough’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.