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The Cedars Academy

Special schoolAges 3–19AcademySixth form

Gateshead, NE9 6QD · Gateshead local authority

Gateshead’s School Grade B better than 56% of towns in England

How full
293 pupils
123% of its 238 places
Free school meals
54%
54 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about The Cedars Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 293 pupils for 238 places
  • 54% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, January 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (NE9 6) sold for a median £198,000; Gateshead’s is £155,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 36 pupils

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

Attainment 8 0.8

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Gateshead avg 47

20304050607080England avg 47.3The Cedars 0.8

Grade 5+ in English and maths 3%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Gateshead avg 48%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%The Cedars 3%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2024/25
0.9
2025/26
0.8

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 22 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
0.6England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
1.1England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths6%
England’s schools 66% · Gateshead 69% · 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

243 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
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
7.4%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
54.9%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 30%Boys 70%
Its letter

No letter for The Cedars Academy

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.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, January 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near The Cedars Academy

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

Home prices in NE9 6, the school’s postcode sector

Gateshead property prices →
£198,000
median sale, 494 sales in 36 months · Gateshead £155,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025NE9 6Gateshead
NE9 6Gateshead

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£298K
Semi-detached
£225K
Terraced
£153K
Flat
£109K
NE9 6Gateshead

Homes in NE9 6 sell for well over Gateshead’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

15 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−DC−BC+B+B+A−AC−B−B+AB−The Cedars Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Gateshead, NE9 6QD

The Cedars Academy: common questions

What is The Cedars Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (January 2023).

How much do houses cost near The Cedars Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, NE9 6, sold for a median £198,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (494 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; Gateshead’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.