Tanfield School Overview

Tanfield School is a secondary school located in Stanley and reports to the local authority of County Durham.

Tanfield School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 690 students but currently enrols 710 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Tanfield School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 95.8% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 2.5% of students at the school.

33.5% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Tanfield School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities