Bede Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bede Community Primary School is a primary school in Gateshead for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 16 October 2024. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Bede Community Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception 2026, as at 55 of the 62 other Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 28 offers: 0.9 first choices per offer, the 8th lowest of 63 Gateshead primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 56% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), though 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 13.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gateshead schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Old Fold Road, Gateshead, NE10 0DJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 45.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 16 October 2024
Strengths
- “This school welcomes everyone.”
- “It has high ambitions for all.”
- “The school ensures that this is never a barrier to them achieving their best.”
To improve
- “In some curriculum areas, particularly the humanities, knowledge is not precisely defined.”
- “This means that staff do not consistently focus on the most important knowledge that pupils need to know when teaching lessons.”
- “It also means that the school cannot check accurately what pupils have learned and remembered from the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 56% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 26 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 26 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Gateshead.
- St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead 0.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Brandling Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Falla Park Community Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- South Street Community Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Carr Hill Community Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Caedmon Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- The Drive Community Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published