Green Lane Primary Academy
General Information
- Address: Green Lane, Acklam, Middlesbrough, TS5 7RU – View on map
- Phone: 01642277407
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Jackie Walsh
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 67 families put it first for 73 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 2 of the 73 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 188
- % eligible for free school meals: 29.7%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Middlesbrough average)
- English as an additional language: 16% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 6.3% a year (Middlesbrough 10.5%, typical in England 13.9%) Low turnover
- Where they went: about 36% moved to another school, 64% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. "Low turnover" means it's among the quarter of similar schools in England where teachers are most likely to stay.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Middlesbrough: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Middlesbrough, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- SEN unit for Social, emotional and mental health 16 places · 11 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 29 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 18 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 9 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 70% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points above the Middlesbrough average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 68% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 68%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 78% · Writing 82% · Maths 82% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 81%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 105
- Based on: 89 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 16th of 40 junior and primary schools in the area
- =14Marton Manor Primary School72%
- =16Breckon Hill Primary School70%
- =16Green Lane Primary Academy70%
- #18Newport Primary School68%
- =19Easterside Academy67%
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12th of 33 primary schools in Middlesbrough for Ofsted rating
- #10Corpus Christi RC Primary SchoolGood
- #11Easterside AcademyGood
- #12Green Lane Primary AcademyGood
- #13Lift CaldicotesGood
- #14Lingfield Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,404 (2024-25)
25th of 41 primary schools in Middlesbrough for spending per pupil
- #23Abingdon Primary School£6,757
- #24Linthorpe Community Primary School£6,694
- #25Green Lane Primary Academy£6,404
- #26St Pius X Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy£6,238
- #27Kader Academy£6,193
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