Burnside College
Foundation school · sixth form · 995 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.2
Foundation special school
Southlands School
- Pupils on roll
- 136of 165 places
- Free school meals
- 61.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 31
- Ofsted
- Good, 21 May 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 27 pupils who finished Year 11 at Southlands School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 70% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Southlands School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 5.3, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in North Tyneside and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Southlands School | North Tyneside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 27 | 2,044 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 93% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 93% | 83% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 40% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| — further education college | 70% | 40% | 37% |
| — other education | 22% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 6% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Southlands School | North Tyneside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 5.3 | 46.0 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 65% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 29% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.38 | 3.98 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 55% | 26% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 5.4 | 33.6 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 5.2 | 50.4 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 3% | 7% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 14 | 45% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 14% |
| Mathematics | 10 | 32% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 10% |
| Combined Science | 10 | 32% | 65% | 0% | 9% | 20% |
| Fine Art | 5 | 16% | 9% | — | 28% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Studies | 1 | — | — |
Where Southlands School is
Other secondary schools in North Tyneside are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from North Tyneside’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in North Tyneside
Churchill Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form
75% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.4
George Stephenson High School
Foundation school · sixth form · 1,233 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.0
John Spence Community High School
Academy converter · 872 pupils
79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.0
Kings Priory School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,549 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.1
Longbenton High School
Foundation school · sixth form · 995 pupils
75% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.7
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.