Performance and Inspection

We are an 11-18 mixed, converter academy, serving the Catholic population within the Tynemouth Priory Partnership. There are also seven Catholic primary schools within the deanery. The Governors took up the opportunity to convert to Academy status in December 2011 and in December 2020 we joined the Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust,

The wide catchment area provides us with a well-balanced, genuinely comprehensive intake, which we believe to be one of our many strengths. The school has capacity for 1700 students which includes up to 350 in the Sixth Form.

Governors admit up to 270 students in Year 7 each year, and the “staying-on” rate into our Sixth Form is consistently around 60%. The Sixth Form also admits a number of students from other schools each year.

St Thomas More is consistently one of the most successful schools in North Tyneside.

Details of our strong results can be found here:

Given the uneven impact of the pandemic on school and college performance data, the government has said you should not make direct comparisons between the performance data for one school or college and another, or to data from previous years.
Click below on link to see our performance on the school and college performance measures website.

https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/137734/st-thomas-more-catholic-high-school/secondary

Latest Ofsted Report

For parents

Parent View gives you the chance to tell Ofsted what you think about your child’s school, from the quality of teaching to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour. The survey can be completed at any time; you don’t have to wait until the school is being inspected.  Please click the link below to go to the Parent View website.

Parent View

Click here for a parent’s guide to inspection from Ofsted.

Our latest Catholic Schools Inspectorate inspection report, and here for a letter from Mr Watson regarding this.