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Emily Wilding Davison School

Special schoolAges 11–16Community

Ponteland, NE20 9QB · Northumberland local authority

Ponteland’s School Grade A better than 92% of towns in England

How full
124 pupils
124% of its 100 places
Free school meals
80%
80 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Emily Wilding Davison School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 124 pupils for 100 places
  • 80% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, July 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (NE20 9) sold for a median £480,000; Ponteland’s is £475,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 45 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Emily Wilding Davison beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 2.3

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Northumberland avg 43.9

20304050607080England avg 47.3Emily Wilding Davison 2.3

Grade 5+ in English and maths 2%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Northumberland avg 41%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Emily Wilding Davison 2%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
2
2024/25
1.7
2025/26
2.3

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-3.10: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 33 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
1.3England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
5England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths4%
England’s schools 66% · Northumberland 62% · a standard pass

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.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

109 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
4.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
95.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
72.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 28%Boys 72%
Its letter

No letter for Emily Wilding Davison School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to 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.

Graded inspection: Good, July 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Emily Wilding Davison School

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

Home prices in NE20 9, the school’s postcode sector

Ponteland property prices →
£480,000
median sale, 501 sales in 36 months · Ponteland £475,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K£500K£550K2010201520202025NE20 9Ponteland
NE20 9Ponteland

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£585K
Semi-detached
£350K
Terraced
£265K
Flat
£160K
NE20 9Ponteland

Homes in NE20 9 sell for about the same as Ponteland’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

5 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−BA−A−BEmily Wilding Davison School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Ponteland, NE20 9QB

Emily Wilding Davison School: common questions

What is Emily Wilding Davison School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (July 2024).

How much do houses cost near Emily Wilding Davison School?

Homes in its postcode sector, NE20 9, sold for a median £480,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (501 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; Ponteland’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.