UK Schools
John Spence Community High School
John Spence Community High School is a mixed secondary academy in North Shields, North Tyneside Council, teaching 872 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted rated it Requires improvement at its last graded inspection in June 2023. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 41 (England 46.1). Term dates and holidays for 2025–2026 are listed below.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for John Spence Community High School.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for John Spence Community High School.
- 1 Staff Training Days
Key dates (2025–2026)
- Autumn Half Term Friday 24 October 2025 - Monday 3 November 2025 Holiday
- Christmas Holiday Friday 19 December 2025 - Monday 5 January 2026 Holiday
- Spring Half Term Friday 13 February 2026 - Monday 23 February 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday Thursday 2 April 2026 - Monday 20 April 2026 Holiday
- Summer Half Term Friday 22 May 2026 - Monday 1 June 2026 Holiday
- Summer Holiday Friday 17 July 2026 - Tuesday 1 September 2026 Holiday
- Staff Training Days 1 September 2025, 28 November 2025, 23 February 2026 Inset Day
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare John Spence Community High School with North Tyneside Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 41 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school North Tyneside Council England
Attendance 25.1% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school North Tyneside Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 88% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school North Tyneside Council England
About this data source & caveats
Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.
We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.
Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for John Spence Community High School. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.
Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Location & catchment area
Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to John Spence Community High School than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.