Haltwhistle Community Campus Upper School converted to become an academy school on 1 September 2013. When its predecessor school, Haltwhistle Community Campus Upper School, was last inspected by Ofsted, it was judged to be good overall. This school caters for pupils aged from 9 to 13 years old and is smaller than the average-sized middle school and much smaller than the average-sized secondary school. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils eligible for support through the pupil premium funding is close to the national average. The pupil premium is additional funding for those pupils who are known to be eligible for free school meals and those children who are looked after by the local authority. The majority of pupils are of White British heritage and very few pupils speak English as an additional language. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is broadly average. No pupils attend any off-site alternative provision. Few pupils leave or join the school other than at the beginning and end of the school year. The school’s accelerated learning centre provides a high adult to pupil ratio for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in English and mathematics. The school, in partnership with the lower school, is part of the Haltwhistle Community Campus multiacademy trust. The two schools have the same headteacher and one governing body. The headteacher joined the school in September 2014. At the time of the inspection, the headteacher was absent from school. The school does not meet the government’s current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils’ attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6.