Front Street Community 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
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Front Street Community Primary School is a primary school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Outstanding, from the inspection on 26 October 2023. Gateshead and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Front Street 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 |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 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: 82% of pupils met the expected standard (England 62%), the 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead.
- Reception 2026 had 59 first-choice applications for 59 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out, with a last distance published, in 1 of the 2 earlier years.
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
- North View, Whickham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE16 4AY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 413 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding Inspected 26 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at this school unequivocally embody the school’s three rules of ‘learn, be safe, be treated with respect’.”
- “All members of the school share leaders’ very high expectations of pupils’ achievement and behaviour.”
- “Staff and pupils alike demonstrate very high standards of conduct.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 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) | 82% | 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: 59 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.
- Swalwell Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whickham 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Fellside Community Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Washingwell Community Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Clover Hill Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Dunston Hill Community Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parkhead Community Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published