Swalwell Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 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 🔒
Swalwell Primary School is a primary school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 May 2023. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Swalwell 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
- Reading, writing and maths in 2024/25: 54% of pupils met the expected standard (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead.
- Reception 2026 had 12 first-choice applications for 12 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- The school has 12.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 24.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead.
- 51.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 16% 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
- South View Terrace, Swalwell, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE16 3HZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 141 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 51.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive at Swalwell Primary School.”
- “Every decision that is made in the school is underpinned by the school's values, specifically that pupils have 'the right to learn, to be safe, to be heard, to be happy, and to be me'.”
- “Staff are relentless in their work to ensure that these values apply equally to all pupils, irrespective of the barriers they may face in life.”
To improve
- “In the small number of subjects where curriculums have not been redeveloped, pupils learning is less secure, as the guidance for teachers about what to teach, including effective approaches to use, is less detailed.”
- “These approaches, however, are not yet consistently used, and teachers sometimes have to ‘re-teach’ things that pupils have studied previously before they can start new teaching.”
- “Year 6 pupils did not achieve highly in their key stage 2 national curriculum tests in 2022.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 July 2023 (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) | 54% | 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: 12 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 12 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.
- Front Street Community Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whickham 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Washingwell Community Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fellside Community Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Dunston Hill Community Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Clover Hill Community Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Riverside Primary Academy 1.4 mi Good Last distance published