Greenside Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Ryton, Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Greenside Primary School is a primary school in Ryton, Gateshead for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 30 January 2024. Gateshead and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Greenside 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 |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 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 Reception place in 2026, as at 55 of the 62 other Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 14 first-choice applications for 15 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding (30 January 2024); of the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead, 5 are Good and 3 have no current grade.
- There were 17.3 pupils per teacher in the January 2026 census, against a middle figure of 20.7 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
- Rockwood Hill Road, Greenside, Ryton, NE40 4AX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 172 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 30 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive at Greenside Primary School.”
- “Leaders, governors and parents celebrate the school being at the heart of its community.”
- “Pupils are rightly proud of their school and their learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 March 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) | 83% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 14 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 Agnes' Catholic Primary School, Crawcrook 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Emmaville Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ryton Community Infant School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ryton Junior School 1.4 mi Not judged
- High Spen Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Crookhill Community Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- West Lane Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School, Blaydon 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published